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(mär′vəl), Andrew 1621-1678.

English metaphysical poet whose frequently satirical work includes the poems "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Definition of Love," both published posthumously.

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Marvell

(ˈmɑːvəl)

(Biography) Andrew. 1621–78, English poet and satirist. He is noted for his lyrical poems and verse and prose satires attacking the government after the Restoration

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Mar•vell

(ˈmɑr vəl)

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Andrew, 1621–78, English poet.

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All the lyric poets of whom I have told you were Royalists, but the Puritans too had their poets, and before ending this chapter I would like to tell you a little of Andrew Marvell, a Parliamentary poet.

If Herrick was a lover of flowers, Marvell was a lover of gardens, woods and meadows.

Yet although Marvell loved Nature, he did not live, like Herrick, far from the stir of war, but took his part in the strife of the times.

And no one perhaps wrote with more grave sorrow of the death of Charles than did Marvell, and that too in a poem which, strangely enough, was written in honor of Cromwell.

But all Marvell's writings were not political, and one of his prettiest poems was written about a girl mourning for a lost pet.

After the Restoration Marvell wrote satires, a kind of poem of which you had an early and mild example in the fable of the two mice by Surrey, a kind of poem of which we will soon hear much more.

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Something more of this will be found in Corbet's "Farewell to the Fairies!" We copy a portion of Marvell's "Maiden lamenting for her Fawn," which we prefer-not only as a specimen of the elder poets, but in itself as a beautiful poem, abounding in pathos, exquisitely delicate imagination and truthfulness-to anything of its species:

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Andrew Marvell, a very moderate Puritan, joined with Milton in his office of Latin Secretary under Cromwell, wrote much poetry of various sorts, some of it in the Elizabethan octosyllabic couplet.

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The canon of Marvell's verse satires is uncertain, and Smith's edition treats the problematical elements with great assurance.

The Poems of Andrew Marvell

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