Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the lovesong To His Coy Mistress, to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in Upon Appleton House and The Garden, the political address An Horatian Ode upon Cromwells Return from Ireland, and the later personal and political satires Flecknoe and The Character of Holland.

Marvell was born in WinesteadinHolderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, near the city of Kingston upon Hull, the son of a Church of England clergyman also named Andrew Marvell. The family moved to Hull when his father was appointed Lecturer at Holy Trinity Church there, and Marvell was educated at Hull Grammar School. A secondary school in the city, the Andrew Marvell Business and Enterprise College, is now named after him.

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