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Andrew Marvell Complete Poems by Elizabeth S.Donno and Andrew Marvell

While Marvell was a member of Parliament, a tutor to one of Cromwell's wards, and a friend to John Milton, his fame has waited until the late twentieth century. Both a satirist and a lyrical poet, his works are a perfect entry into Elizabethan poetry for the casual and serious reader. Marvell deals primarily with two themes-the English revolution and the division in all of us between earthly presence and soul. Each theme is timely today, and Marvell is one of the most readable of the Elizabethan poets. Aside from all of these attributes, any poet who can create a stanza such as this certainly deserves a look: - Anonymous

To make a final conquest of all of me,
Love did compose so sweet an enemy,
In whom both beauties to my death agree,
Joining themselves in harmony;
That while she with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind.