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 Character Of Holland
- The Unfortunate Lover
- To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lad
- Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie De Translatione Vulgi
- The Mower Against Gardens
- In Legationem Domini Oliveri St John Ad Provincias Foedera
- Johannis Trottii Epitaphium
- Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium
- On The Victory Obtained By Blake Over the Spaniards, In The
- Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax
- The Gallery
- Inscribenda Luparae