Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)

Andrew Marvell (March 31, 1621 - August 16, 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, and the son of an Anglican clergyman. As a metaphysical, he is associated with John Donne, George Herbert, and Ben Jonson. He was the first assistant of John Milton.

After attending Cambridge, Marvell went on the Grand Tour; while England was embroiled in a civil war from 1642 to 1647, Marvell was on the continent. After returning, he worked as tutor to the daughter of Thomas Fairfax, who had recently given command of Parliamentary army to Oliver Cromwell. In 1657, Marvell joined Milton, who by that time had lost his sight, in the post of Latin secretary to Cromwell's Council of State. In 1659 he was elected to Parliament from his hometown of Hull in Yorkshire; in 1660 the monarchy was restored. His political maneuvering must have been skilful, because he not only avoided all punishment for his cooperation with republicanism but helped convince the government of Charles II not to execute Milton for his antimonarchical writings and revolutionary activities. (Marvell also contributed an eloquent prefatory poem to the second edition of Paradise Lost.)

From 1659 until his death, Marvell was a conscientious member of Parliament, answering letters from his constituents and going on two diplomatic missions, one to Holland and the other to Russia. He also wrote prose satires (anonymously, of course) criticizing the monarchy, defending Puritan dissenters, and denouncing censorship.

Famous poems include To His Coy Mistress ( to which T. S. Eliot refers in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) and The Garden.

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Miscellaneous
	The Definition Of Love	1 Comment
	A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure
	A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body
	A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda
	A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure
	A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars
	A Letter To Doctor Ingelo, then With My Lord Whitlock, Amba
	A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C.
	Aliter
	Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes
	An Epitaph
	An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
	Bermudas
	Blake's Victory
	Clorinda And Damon
	Cromwell's Return
	Damon The Mower
	Daphnis And Chloe
	Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi
	Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium
	Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum
	Eyes And Tears
	First Anniversary
	Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome
	Hortus
	In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell
	Last Instructions to a Painter
	Mourning
	Music's Empire
	On A Drop Of Dew	1 Comment
	On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost
	On The Victory Obtained By Blake Over the Spaniards, In The Bay Of Scanctacruze, In The Island Of teneriff.1657
	Ros
	Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2
	The Character Of Holland
	The Coronet
	The Death of Cromwell
	The Fair Singer
	The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C.
	The Gallery
	The Garden
	The Match
	The Mower Against Gardens
	The Mower To The Glo-Worms
	The Mower's Song
	The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun
	The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers
	The Unfortunate Lover
	Thoughts in a Garden
	To Christina, Queen of Sweden	1 Comment
	To His Coy Mistress	1 Comment
	To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems
	To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors
	To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lady Mary Cromwell
	Tom May's Death	2 Comments
	Translated
	Upon An Eunuch; A Poet. Fragment
	Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax
	Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow
	Young Love