Andrew Marvell and Constantijn Huygens: Common Grounds and Mutual Contacts

TY - JOUR

T1 - Andrew Marvell and Constantijn Huygens

T2 - Common Grounds and Mutual Contacts

AU - Huysman, E.C.M.

PY - 2018/2/15

Y1 - 2018/2/15

N2 - This paper compares the somewhat parallel lives of Constantijn Huygens and Andrew Marvell, but it also examines their differences and asks whether there may actually have been encounters between the two of them. One of their mutual contacts was the English priest Richard Flecknoe, who was an agent in the service of Béatrix de Cusance, Duchess of Lorraine, in which capacity he came into contact with both Huygens and Marvell. This essay also explains the context around Flecknoe’s poverty, which Marvell writes about in his satirical poem ‘Flecknoe an English Priest at Rome’.

AB - This paper compares the somewhat parallel lives of Constantijn Huygens and Andrew Marvell, but it also examines their differences and asks whether there may actually have been encounters between the two of them. One of their mutual contacts was the English priest Richard Flecknoe, who was an agent in the service of Béatrix de Cusance, Duchess of Lorraine, in which capacity he came into contact with both Huygens and Marvell. This essay also explains the context around Flecknoe’s poverty, which Marvell writes about in his satirical poem ‘Flecknoe an English Priest at Rome’.

U2 - 10.16995/ms.16

DO - 10.16995/ms.16

M3 - Article

SN - 2399-7435

JO - Marvell Studies

JF - Marvell Studies

ER -