Andrew Marvell

Upon Appleton House

Topographical poem praising a great house and estate as emblem of virtue and order

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Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell

English metaphysical poet and political writer whose carpe diem poem To His Coy Mistress is one of the most celebrated in English. His garden poems and lyrical meditations show extraordinary wit and compression.

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