| Popis: |
First of all, Andrew Marvell didn’t seem to have much of a problem with panegyric. Whatever discomforts attach to his performance of praise, they seem rather to be ours, than his, a result of our own ideas about the poet’s moral and political identity. We are disturbed by the position of untrammelled praise within Marvell’s literary universe, we would like that space to display a certain air of undecidability, perhaps some indecipherability. This chapter aims to address this gap of sympathy or understanding, to explore the nature of praise within Marvell’s poetry, to comprehend the dialectic of praise and blame in his literary universe – to consider how, or if, the praise of famous men consorts with the poetics of liminality in that brilliant chameleon. |
