Paper 3 Quotes - Marvell and landscape

Horatian Ode, Cromwell changing shape of kingdom

‘cast the kingdom old / Into another mould’

Horatian Ode, Cromwell as tenant to Parliament

‘He to the Commons’ feet presents / A kingdom, for his first year’s rents’

Horatian Ode, Wilding points out false dichotomy Cromwell v Crown

‘active star’ vs ‘bleeding head’

Horatian Ode, possible Levellers’ anti-Irish resistance quashed

‘plead the ancient rights in vain’

Horatian Ode, possible reference to surprise attack on the Levellers at Burford in 1649

'like the three-forked lightning’ ‘Did thorough his own side / His fiery way divide.’

Horatian Ode, Marvell as pro-war

‘the inglorious arts of peace’ ‘keep thy sword erect’

Upon Appleton House, militaristic flowers

‘silken ensigns’, ‘fragrant volleys’, ‘parade’ ‘regiment’

Upon Appleton House, war encroaching on the idyll

‘But war all this doth overgrow; / We ordnance plant and powder sow’

Upon Appleton House, Fairfax as conscientious

‘For he did, with his utmost skill, / Ambition weed, but conscience till’

Upon Appleton House, New Model Army as mowers

‘With whistling scythe, and elbow strong / These massacre the grass along’

Upon Appleton House, mowed meadow violent

‘the plain / Lies quilted o’er with bodies slain’

Upon Appleton House, mowed meadow levelled

‘A new and empty face of things, / A levelled space’

Upon Appleton House, explicit Levellers reference

‘For to this naked equal flat, / Which Levellers take pattern at’

Winstanley’s ‘The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced’, the earth should be

‘a common treasury for all to live comfortably upon’

‘The Garden’, withdrawal into private, psychological happiness

‘Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, / Withdraws into its happiness’

‘The Garden’, anti-society, pro-solitude

‘Society is all but rude, / To this delicious solitude’

‘The Character of Holland’, flatness of landscape = social flatness

‘The earth and water play at level-coil’