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The complete poems

Andrew Marvell ; edited by Elizabeth Story Donno

(Penguin books)(Penguin English poets)

Penguin, 1976

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This collection originally published: 1972

Reprinted in Penguin English poets 1976

Bibliography: p.17-20. - Includes index

Includes poems in Latin and one in Greek with English translations

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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. From the passionately erotic To his Coy Mistress, to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual On a Drop of Dew, in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery. Eloquent and compelling, they remain among the most vital and profound works of the era - works by a figure who, in the words of T. S. Eliot, speaks clearly and unequivocally with the voice of his literary age'.

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