Literary Birthday – 31 March – Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell was born on 31 March 1621 and and died on 16 August 1678.

Andrew Marvell Quotes

1. But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.
2. Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
3. Music, the mosaic of the air.
4. Among the blind the one-eye’d blinkard reigns.
5. The grave’s a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist, and politician. He is associated with John Donne and George Herbert, and he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems include To His Coy Mistress, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland (study guide), and the country house poem Upon Appleton House (analytic commentary). He adopted ‘familiar forms in his poetry and infused them with his unique conceits, analogies, reflections, and preoccupations with larger questions about life and death.’ Marvell also wrote anonymous prose satires: criticizing the monarchy and Roman Catholicism, defending Puritan dissenters, and denouncing censorship.

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