Andrew Marvell
1621 - 1678
Andrew Marvell was an English poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. A metaphysical poet, his poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", and the later personal and political satires "Flecknoe" and "The Character of Holland".Poems
- The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun
- Cromwell's Return
- Mourning
- A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda
- Aliter
- A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars
- In The French Translation Of Lucan, By Monsieur De Brebeuf
- Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum
- On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost
- First Anniversary
- In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes