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Andrew Marvell

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Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
  1. Born in Winestead-in-Holderness, east Riding of Yorkshire.
  2. Educated from Trinity College, Cam,bridge
  3. In 1650 became the tutor of 20-year-old Mary Fairfax (later Duchess of Buckingham)
  4. Marvell was also a well known politician.
  5. Works:
    1. His poem Upon Appleton House: To my Lord Fairfax a country house poem in manner of Johnson’s To Penshurst.
    2. Paid tribute to Cromwell in his famous ode An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland.
    3. Nature poems:
      1. Upon Appleton House.
      2. The garden
      3. Bermudas.
    4. The Mower Poems:
      1. The Mower, against Gardens.
      2. Damon the mower
      3. The Mower to the Glo-worms
      4. The Mower’s Song.
    5. Religious Poems
      1. A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure
      2. A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
      3. The Coronet
      4. Eyes and Fears
    6. Love Poems:
      1. The Nymph Complaining for the death of her Fawn.
      2. Young Love
      3. To His Coy Mistress
        1. A classical seduction poem, a carpe diem poem
      4. The Unfortunate Lover
      5. Daphnis and Chole
      6. The Definition of Love.
    7. Political Poems During Cromwellian Era
      1. An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
      2. The Character of Holland
      3. The First Anniversary of Government Under His Highness The Lord Protector.
      4. A Poem upon the Death of His late Highness the lord Protector.

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