Marvell

[ mahr-vuhl ]

noun

1. Andrew, 1621–78, English poet and satirist.

Marvell

/ ˈmɑːvəl /

noun

1. MarvellAndrew16211678MEnglishWRITING: poetWRITING: satirist Andrew. 1621–78, English poet and satirist. He is noted for his lyrical poems and verse and prose satires attacking the government after the Restoration

Example Sentences

A chapter on the metaphysical poets is four-fifths Donne to one-fifth Herbert, with Marvell failing to get a look-in.

From The Daily Beast

Portrait of a Lady, Jane Eyre, and then Andrew Marvell is my favorite poet.

From The Daily Beast

In the words of Andrew Marvell, he has "world enough and time."

From The Daily Beast

The thought of Milton and of Marvell only adds an old world charm to the most modern of the works of the Muses.

From Project Gutenberg

As the intimate friend and colleague of Milton, Marvell shares some of the indescribable majesty of that throne.

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The younger Marvell, with one boyish interval, belonged all through his life to the paternal school of religious thought.

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The plague twice visited Hull during the time of the elder Marvell, first in 1635 and again in 1638.

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In the following November the elder Marvell married a widow lady, but his own end was close upon him.

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