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Biography of Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell ; 31 March — 16 August was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between and During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. Afterwards, from the middle of onwards, Marvell probably travelled in continental Europe.

He may well have served as a tutor for an aristocrat on the Grand Tour, but the facts are not clear on this point. While England was embroiled in the civil war, Marvell seems to have remained on the continent until In Rome in he probably met the Villiers brothers, Lord Francis and the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, as well as Richard Flecknoe, about whom he would later on write a satirical poem.

It is not known exactly where his travels took him except that Milton later reported that Marvell had mastered four languages, including French, Italian and Spanish.

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First poems and Marvell's time at Nun Appleton Marvell's first poems, which were written in Latin and Greek and published when he was still at Cambridge, lamented a visitation of the plague and celebrated the birth of a child to King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. He only belatedly became sympathetic to the successive regimes during the Interregnum after Charles I's execution on 30 January His "Horatian Ode", a political poem dated to early , responds with lament to the regicide even as it praises Oliver Cromwell's return from Ireland.

Circa —52, Marvell served as tutor to the daughter of the Lord General Thomas Fairfax, who had recently relinquished command of the Parliamentary army to Cromwell. He lived during that time at Nun Appleton Hall, near York, where he continued to write poetry. One poem, "Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax", uses a description of the estate as a way of exploring Fairfax's and Marvell's own situation in a time of war and political change.

Probably the best-known poem he wrote at this time is "To His Coy Mistress". Oxenbridge had made two trips to Bermuda, and it is thought that this inspired Marvell to write his poem Bermudas.