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Andrew Marvell was an English poet, one of the last representatives of the metaphysical school and one of the first masters of English classicism. Marvell's most famous poems are "To the Coy Mistress," "The Garden," "A Horatian Ode on Cromwell's Return from Ireland," "The Definition of Love," and "On Appleton House. To My Lord Fairfax." His first poems, written in Latin and Greek, were published while Marvell was still at Cambridge. These poems were filled with lamentations over the arrival of the plague and jubilation over the birth of a child to King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria.

In 1657, Marvell joined Milton, who had by then completely lost his sight, as an assistant on Cromwell's Council of State, earning a salary of 200 pounds sterling per year, which at the time completely ensured his financial independence. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for his birthplace, Hull, Yorkshire. From 1659 until his death in 1678, Marvell served as a conscientious member of Parliament, undertaking two missions to the Continent, including one to Russia. He wrote anonymous satirical prose criticizing the Catholic monarchy, defending Puritan dissidents, and condemning censorship.
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