Andrew Marvell at 400

The poet and patriot Andrew Marvell was born on 31 March 1621 in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He attended the Grammar School in Hull, where his father had been appointed Master of the Charterhouse. Two of his teachers in Hull were graduates of Trinity College Cambridge, but he would later comment rather sardonically that …

Questions on Criticism: Arthur Balfour’s Romanes Lecture on literary criticism and beauty (1909)

Among the material recently acquired by the College is a collection of documents relating to Trinity alumnus and former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour (Add.MS.a.616). Following his entry into Parliament in 1874, much of Balfour’s early career was focused on Ireland, where he remained staunchly against Irish home rule and oversaw the redistribution of land …