Dimensions
129 x 198 x 19mm
Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century.
'The Complete Poems' demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity, 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 prescient Garden and Mower poems, which consider humankind's relationship with the environment, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery.
Eloquent and compelling, they remain among the most vital and profound works of the era - by a figure who, in the words of TS Eliot, 'speaks clearly and unequivocally with the voice of his literary age'.
