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Andrew Marvell

English poet and politician (1621–1678)

Andrew Marvell (; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an Englishmetaphysical 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. 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".

Early life

Marvell was born in Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire on 31 March 1621. He was the son of a Church of England clergyman also named Andrew Marvell.[1] The family moved to Hull when his father was appointed Lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, and Marvell was educated at Hull Grammar School. Aged 13, Marvell attended Trinity College, Cambridge and eventually received a BA degree.[2] A portrait of Marvell, attri

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To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell

  • 1. “ To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell

  • 2. A METAPHYSICAL POET Early 1600’s Concerned with what makes us human and what sets us aside from other animals Usually focus on “love” and “relationship with God” Poems structured as arguments Wit, irony, wordplay, often comic with serious topic underneath

  • 3. THE CONCEIT An extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs an entire poem or poetic passage

  • 4. EXAMPLE OF CONCEIT John Donne's "The Flea“, in which a flea that bites both the speaker and his lover becomes a conceit arguing that his lover has no reason to deny him sexually, although they are not married: Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare Where we almost, yea more than married are.    This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is.

  • 5. “ To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell

  • 6. Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst
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    Andrew Marvell. 1621 – 1678. Andrew Marvell. 1621 Andrew Marvell is born at Winstead, Yorkshire. 1638 He graduates with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge University. 1642 Marvell travels abroad until 1646.

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    1. Andrew Marvell 1621 – 1678

    2. Andrew Marvell 1621 Andrew Marvell is born at Winstead, Yorkshire. 1638 He graduates with a Bach

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