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Andrew Marvell:  “To His Coy Mistress”

The infamous metaphysical poem gets the full treatment: its surface offenses and deeper ones, its philosophical challenges to the Classical age and the Christian one, its dangerous political contexts, and some discomfiting digs into Marvell’s psychology and our own.

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5.00 Introduction & Irony

Andrew Marvell (supplement)

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5.01 Not My Text! Irony & Ducking Accountability

Andrew Marvell (supplement)

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5.02 To His Coy Mistress - Part 1

Andrew Marvell - Main

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Chapters - Part 1

  1. Theme
  2. Interjection: Why This Episode?
  3. Marvell and TS Eliot
  4. Metaphysical Poetry
  5. Reading: Marvell’s “Coy Mistress”
  6. A Quick Breakdown
  7. Carpe Diem
  8. Christian and Pagan
  9. What’s Ahead
  10. Outro / Theme

5.03 To His Coy Mistress - Part 2

Andrew Marvell - Main

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Chapters - Part 2

  1. Theme
  2. Intro and Recap
  3. The Offensive Act - Feminism
  4. Historicist Qualifiers
  5. Back to School: Studia Humanitatus
  6. Catullus and Friends
  7. Closing Questions
  8. Outro / Theme

5.04 To His Coy Mistress - Part 3

Andrew Marvell - Main

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Chapters - Part 3

  1. So Where Were We?
  2. Opening Theme
  3. Recaps & New Readings
  4. T. S. Eliot & Textual History
  5. Marvell’s History
  6.   - The Cavalier Poets
  7.   - A Political Poem?
  8.   - A World of Death
  9. And In Conclusion?
  10. Outro / Theme
Profile of Andrew Marvell as a marble sculpture

5.05 To His Coy Mistress - Part 4

Andrew Marvell - Main

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Chapters - Part 4

  1. Marvell as Sculpture
  2.   - In the Museum
  3. Opening Theme
  4. Manyness
  5. Constructed Speakers, Constructed Authors
  6.    - Failed Seductions
  7.    - Silence in Response
  8. A Many-Hearted Sculpture
  9. Accountability to Our Talk
  10. Closing / Outro

5.06 What I Carry With Me

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.07 Reading & Living in Uncertainty

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.08 Dorian Gray & Difficult Conversations

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.09 Kipling's "If" & Irony-Hunting

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.10 Writing Back: Answering Marvell

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.11 Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.12 Star Trek: "World Enough and Time"

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.13 Carpe All Over the Place

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.14 Rilke and Carpe Don't Rhyme

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.15 Bellow Seizes Our Day

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.16 Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.17 What I Get Wrong

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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5.18 Marvell's Garden & Ours: Otium

Andrew Marvell (Journey 5)

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The Complete Transcripts (PDF)

Nineteen Literary Nomads podcast episodes taking on Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” and the historical and popular history of carpe diem as it appears in literature, this is an unedited collection of the complete transcripts and bibliography, totaling 240 dense pages in pdf form.

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What do we do with–how do we read–can we make us of–a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?

“This coyness, lady, were no crime.
But…”

To His Coy Mistress 
Andrew Marvell, 1681

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side,
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain.  I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honor turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run. 

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Bibliography for 5.00 - Introduction & Irony

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“To His Coy Mistress.” The Poetry Foundation, 22 June 2024, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress.

Bibliography for 5.01 - Irony and Ducking Responsibility

Gleckner, Robert. “Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ and Edward Young’s Book of Job.” Blake Issue Archive, 1987, https://bq.blakearchive.org/21.3.gleckner.

Bibliography for Main Episodes (5.02-5.05)

Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress - Analysis. Poetry Lecture by Dr. Andrew Barker. Directed by Andrew Barker. www.youtube.com, https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUR7sNTDolY. Accessed 6 Jan. 2022.
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Bhattacharya, Ramkrishna. “Problem of Reading/ Studying Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (Draft).” Unpublished Essay. www.academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/12144450/Problem_of_Reading_Studying_Marvells_To_His_Coy_Mistress_draft_. Accessed 6 Jan. 2022.
Boucher, Geoff. “‘To His Coy Mistress’ as Memento Mori: Reading Marvell after Zizek.” International Journal of Žižek Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, Feb. 2020. zizekstudies.org, http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/1156.
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Brunner, Larry. “‘Love At Lower Rate’: A Christian Reading of ‘To His Coy Mistress.’” Christianity and Literature, vol. 38, no. 4, 1989, pp. 25–44. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/44311692.
Carroll, John J. “The Sun and the Lovers in ‘To His Coy Mistress.’” Modern Language Notes, vol. 74, no. 1, 1959, pp. 4–7. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3040094.
Christian, Henry A. “Marvell’s Mistress’ Rubies.” Modern Language Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1980, pp. 33–37. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3194166.
Cousins, A. D. “The Replication and Critique of Libertinism in Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress.’” Renaissance Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, 2014, pp. 392–404. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24424022.
De F. Lord, George. “Innocence and Experience in The Poetry of Andrew Marvell.” The British Library Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 129–44. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/42554096.
Digenova, M. “On ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell.” The North American Review, vol. 295, no. 2, 2010, pp. 24–24. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25750624.
Duyfhuizen, Bernard. “Textual Harassment of Marvell’s Coy Mistress: The Institutionalization of Masculine Criticism.” College English, vol. 50, no. 4, 1988, pp. 411–23. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/377620.
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Gleckner, Robert. “Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ and Edward Young’s Book of Job.” Blake Issue Archive, 1987, https://bq.blakearchive.org/21.3.gleckner.
Greteman, Blaine. “The ‘Marvelous’ Revaluation of a Life and Its Meaning: A Review-Essay.” Milton Quarterly, edited by Nigel Smith et al., vol. 47, no. 3, 2013, pp. 163–71. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24462075.
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Hirst, Derek, and Steven Zwicker, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell. Cambridge University Pres, 2011.
Hirst, Derek, and Steven N. Zwicker. Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane. 1st ed, Oxford University Press, 2012.
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K, Zeki Michael. A Psychoanalytical Approach To Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” in Connection with Thanataphobia, The Reality Principle and the Deadipal Complex. www.academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/10436120/A_Psychoanalytical_Approach_To_Andrew_Marvells_To_His_Coy_Mistress_In_Connection_With_Thanataphobia_The_Reality_Principle_And_Thedeadipal_Complex. Accessed 6 Jan. 2022.
Karon, Jeffrey W. “Cohesion as Logic: The Possible Worlds of Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress.’” Style, vol. 27, no. 1, 1993, pp. 91–105. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/42946023.
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Bibliography for 5.07 - Reading and Living in Uncertainty

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Kukkonen, Karin. “Literature as Uncertainty Practice: An Anomaly at the End of Literature.” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift Für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte, vol. 97, no. 4, Dec. 2023, pp. 1143–52. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41245-023-00219-4.

All Music by Randon Myles*, except:

Parker, Charlie. “K. C. Blues,” Boss Bird, Proper Records, 1951. Steve Chisnell wrecking it on Piano, Northville, MI. 1980.

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Bibliography for 5.08 - Dorian Gray and Difficult Conversations

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Bibliography for 5.09 - Kipling’s “If” & Irony-Hunting

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Bibliography for 5.11 - Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11

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Bibliography for 5.12 - Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”

Cawley, James. “Home and Introduction to Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II.” Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II - English, http://www.stnv.de/index.php. Accessed Apr. 2025.

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Bibliography for 5.14 - Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme

Belangia, Sherwood. “A Defective Reading of Rilke’s ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo.’” Shared Ignorance, 12 Apr. 2014, https://woodybelangia.com/2014/04/12/a-defective-reading-of-rilkes-archaic-torso-of-apollo/.

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Bibliography for 5.15 - Bellow Seizes Our Day

Abedin, Md. Joynul, and Suzana Haj Muhammad*. Alienation And Endangered Relationship In Saul Bellow’s Seize The Day. 2019, pp. 579–85. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.09.64.

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