Andrew Marvell

Sean O'Brien

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571258413
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.

Andrew Marvell was born in Yorkshire in 1624 and was educated in Hull and Cambridge. He became the unofficial laureate to Cromwell and in 1657 he took over from Milton as the Latin Secretary to the Council of State. Famed as a satirist during his lifetime Marvell was a virtually unknown lyric poet until rediscovered in the nineteenth century. However, it was only after the First World War that his poetry gained popularity thanks to the efforts of T. S. Eliot and Sir Herbert Grierson. Marvell died in 1678.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• ANDREW MARVELL
• An Elegy upon the Death of My Lord Francis Villiers
• To His Noble Friend Mr Richard Lovelace, upon his Poems
• On a Drop of Dew
• The Coronet
• Eyes and Tears
• Bermudas
• Clorinda and Damon
• A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
• The Definition of Love
• Daphnis and Chloe
• To His Coy Mistress
• The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
• The Mower against Gardens
• Damon the Mower
• The Mower to the Glow-worms
• The Garden
• from Upon Appleton House
• The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun
• An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel’s Return from Ireland
• Tom May’s Death
• from The Loyal Scot
• The Character of Holland
• An Epitaph upon Frances Jones
• The Second Chorus from Seneca’s Tragedy, Thyestes
• ANDREW MARVELL Poems Selected by SEAN O’BRIEN
• Copyright