Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)

by Andrew Marvell (Author), Bill Hutchings (Editor)

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  1979

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  Marvell's oeuvre must be one of the smallest of any major English poet, but that he is a major poet is no longer contested. Very little is known of his life: he was born in 1621, in Yorkshire; he tutored the daughter of the parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax at Nun Appleton; he spent some time abroad; he was a friend of Milton's and MP for Hull 1659-1677. His poems range from the public An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland , perhaps the gre atest political poem in English, to the exquisite lyricism of The Mower to the Glow-worms .