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Marvell, Andrew
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Marvell, Andrew (1621–78). Satirist and poet. Son of a Yorkshire clergyman, Cambridge-educated with linguistic skills acquired from four years in Europe, Marvell tutored Lord
Fairfax's daughter (when he wrote his best poetry) and a ward of
Cromwell's before being eventually appointed (1657) as assistant in the Latin secretaryship to
Milton, whom he later defended vigorously. Despite having served the Protectorate, he was able to accept the Restoration, though his forceful political tracts (some prudently anonymous) criticized corrupt and profligate government and railed at religious intolerance. He was elected MP for Hull in 1659 but, despite being moderately active in Parliament, was ineffective in the country party, though he continued to watch his constituents' interests until death from inappropriate treatment for an ague. Regarded by contemporaries as a political satirist, Marvell is now generally remembered as a metaphysical poet, eclectic but lyrical and delighting in nature (
Miscellaneous Poems, posthumously 1681).
A. S. Hargreaves
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Andrew Marvell's ambivalence toward adult sexuality.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...adult sexuality. Among the scholars studying Andrew Marvell's poetry, a few have been concerned with the possible connection between Nabokov's novel and Marvell's works. In "Marvell and Nymphets," William Kerrigan criticizes Michael...
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Marvell and Milton's literary friendship reconsidered.(Andrew Marvell, )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...tomb than a cremation." (4) Andrew Marvell's poetic career encompasses more...Loyall Scot" (1697), in which Marvell raises John Cleveland from the...gives a good idea of the extent of Marvell's hostile audacity. Also, Marvell...
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The Poems of Andrew Marvell.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Poems of Andrew Marvell. Ed. NIGEL SMITH. (Longman Annotated...Nigel Smith's Longman edition of Marvell is a cornucopia of learning, an extraordinary...unique resource for the student of Marvell's work and its age' (p. xi...
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Andrew Marvell and the 'painter satires': a computational approach to their authorship.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Andrew Marvell and the 'Painter Satires': A Computational...Some of them have been attributed to Andrew Marvell but the external evidence is uncertain...painter satires' associated with Andrew Marvell. To say this is not to accept the authority...
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ANDREW MARVELL: THE POET AND HIS WORLD.(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; World Enough and The Life of Andrew Marvell. Nicholas Murray. Little, Brown...this is the first biography of Marvell since 1965 to lay claims to being...referring to the post-Restoration Marvell, the man of affairs and satirist...
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Books: The metaphysical artful dodger World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray Little, Brown pounds 20
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Was the surname of the poet Andrew Marvell, greatest of the so called metaphysical...life. Why apt, though? Because Andrew Marvell, lyric poet in his youth and...Hesiod in the original to enjoy Andrew Marvell. Later in the 1650s, and back...
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Rewriting Cromwell: Milton, Marvell, and negative liberty in the English Revolution.(Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, Andrew Marvell,)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...gap between John Milton's and Andrew Marvell's politics. Earlier generations...pragmatic, even Machiavellian friend Marvell, both appeared much less systematic...this assessment completely ignored Marvell's political prose, a neglect...
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Marvell's metamorphic 'Fleckno.' (Andrew Marvell; poem)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; While the narrator of Andrew Marvell's "Fleckno, an English Priest...readers have come to recognize as Marvell's characteristic poetic technique...The interpenetrating elements of Marvell's oxymoronic style in this poem...
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Andrew Marvell - Politics first.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/17/2000; 700+ words
; WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: THE LIFE OF ANDREW MARVELL. By Nicholas Murray. St Martin's Press; 304 pages...paperback; Pounds9.99) MOST people nowadays know of Andrew Marvell as a poet, the author indeed of one of the most famous...
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Review - Books: MP with a coy mistress Andrew Marvell, lyric poet and politician, remains a hard man to pin down, says Jonathan Bate
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray Little, Brown...variously spelt as Shakespeare's: Marvell, Mervill, Merville, Marvel...in literary biography: "Was Andrew Marvell gay?" As for his politics...
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Andrew Marvell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Andrew Marvell The English poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), one of the writers of the 17th century...sensuous, witty, elegant, and sometimes passionate. Were Andrew Marvell not a major poet in his own right, he might be regarded...
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Marvell, Andrew
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Marvell, Andrew (1621–78), was educated...patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet...Lyrics and T. S. Eliot's ‘Andrew Marvell’, that the modern high estimation...
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Literature for Adults
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...poems like "The Flea" (1633) and "The Sun Rising" (1633) by John Donne and "To His Coy Mistress" (1681) by Andrew Marvell. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw major shifts in representations of death, due in part to...
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Kingston upon Hull
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...fortified base, crucial enough for its control to become the flashpoint for civil war in 1642. Hull's MPs included Andrew Marvell in the 17th cent. and William Wilberforce in the 18th. By 1800 it was the third British port (measured by volume...
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metaphysical poetry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...and subtle argument. Although this method was by no means new, in the hands of such writers as George Herbert , Andrew Marvell and John Donne it infused new life into English poetry.
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