The Economist (US), June 17th, 2000
WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME: THE LIFE OF ANDREW MARVELL. By Nicholas Murray. St Martin's Press; 304 pages; $27.95. Little, Brown; 304 pages; Pounds20 (paperback; Pounds9.99) MOST people nowadays know of Andrew Marvell as a poet, the author indeed of one of the most famous love poems written in English, "To His Coy Mistress". In his lifetime, though, he was known for other things. His poetry was not published until after his death, and may not have been read by his contemporaries at all. Who then was this man, and what did he do when he was not writing? The son of a Yorkshire clergyman, Marvell dev...
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