Loving Gardens, Loving the Gardener? ‘Solitude’ in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Garden

• Published in: Marvell Studies Vol. 3; no. 2
• Main Author: Seymour, Laura
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ubiquity Press Ltd 11.10.2018; Open Library of Humanities
• Subjects: Andrew Marvell; Book publishing; Marvell, Andrew; pastoral; poetry; sexuality; solitude; United Kingdom

In 'The Garden', Andrew Marvell devotes a lot of time to extolling the virtues of the solitude he experiences in the garden of the title. Despite Marvell's insistence that he prefers solitude to 'society', at the end of the poem his attention comes to rest approvingly on a h...