Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry, religious works and biting satire.

Having stood for many years in the shadow of Donne, Marvell is now re-emerging as a major poet of the seventeenth century, with an achievement out of proportion to his slender output. Though the sources of the poetry remain mysterious - Marvell is known to history as a man of action, not as a writer - the poems themselves are crystalline, dramatic and impossible to forget. From 'To His Coy ...

Andrew Marvell's unpublished lyric poetry came out in the 1681 Folio, three years after his death. The work was extremely corrupt, and this edition has a re-edited text with notes and introductory material, and extensive bibliography.

Marvell's oeuvre must be one of the smallest of any major English poet. His poems range from the public An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland , perhaps the greatest political poem in English, to the exquisite lyricism of The Mower to the Glow-worms .

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A selection of poems by Andrew Marvell. This book is part of a series aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist, and as such carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. Other poets featured in this series include Christina Rossetti, John Keats and Gerard Manley Hopkins.