Eyber, who has Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature from the U. of California, Berkeley, provides analytic commentary to Andrew Marvell's long poem "Upon Appleton House" (written between
1650 and 1653) that examines the wit in the poem and focuses on the reading experiences of the original Renaissance audience and today. After providing historical information and the poem's
text, he notes, line by line, its internal coherences and instances of the author's wit in wordplay, syntax, ambiguities, and phonic and associative connections--aspects that have been
previously neglected. He makes observation of these instances, but avoids interpretation. There is no index. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
