The replication and critique of libertinism in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'

Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' both iterates and interrogates the discourse of sexual libertinism. His poem presents a double picture of libertine verse and the version of Epicurean philosophy informing it. That picture problematically sets topoi from the literature of sexual liberti...

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Published in:Renaissance studies 2014-06, Vol.28 (3), p.392-404
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Literary criticism
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Epicureanism
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Literary criticism
Love poetry
Lyric poetry
Orthodox Church
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Pleasure
Poetry
Reasoning
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