The Garden (poem)

The Garden (poem)

"The Garden", by Andrew Marvell, is one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century. "In his poem called 'The Garden'", H.C. Beeching noted over a century ago, [In "The National Review", 1901, quoted by Hugh MacDonald, "The Poetry of Andrew Marvell" (The Muses' Library: Harvard University Press) in "Comments and appreciation" (1952, xxix).] "Marvell has sung a palinode that for richness of phrasing in its sheer sensual love of garden delights is perhaps unmatchable."

Marvell recast much of his poem in Latin, "Hortus", printed to follow "The Garden" in the 1681 posthumous "Miscellaneous Poems":"Quisnam adeo, mortale genus, præcorda versat?"Heu Palmæ Laurique furor, vel simplicis Herbæ!...

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Fragments of this poem are used as lyrics in track 2 (Delicious Solitude) and track 10 (Green Thought) of Goran Bregovic's album "Silence of the Balkans"


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