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Andrew Marvell

Andrew  Marvel was born on March 31 , 1621  at Winestead - in - Holderness in Yorkshire , England l . As the son of  Reverend Andrew Marvell and his wife Anne , Andrew and his family moved to Hull .Where Reverend Marvell became lecturer at Holy Trinity Church when he was just three years old .
Marvell was educated at Hull Grammar School until he matriculated as a Sizar for Trinity College in 1633 . Just four years later , two poems by Marvell,one Greek and one latin , were published in the Musa Cantabrigiensis . One year later ,                        
Marvell was admitted as a Scholar of Trinity College and took his B. A . the same year . Only a few days after receiving his scholarship , Marvell's mother passed away . He stayed a few more years at his current residence and left Cambridge after his father's death , by drowning , in 1640 .

It is not entirely known what happened in the years following , however it is believed that Marvell spent two years a clerk for his brother -in -law Edmund popple's trading house .

Between 1642 and 1646 , Andrew  traveled extensively abroad ; including France , Holland , Switzerland , Spain and Italy . In 1650 Marvell began tutoring  Mary Fair fax, a twelve  -year -old girl who later become Duchess of Bucking ham , daughter of Sir Thomas Fir fax , a retired Lord General parliamentary forces .

While at the Yorkshire seat in the Fair fax family , Nun Appleton House Marvell wrote his most Non - satiric English poems . The stay provided Marvell with material for his most profound poem ,Upon Appleton House poem which defines him as both a man and a poet . The stay also provided such poems as to his Coy Mistress and The Definition of Love .

In 1653 , Marvell met and befriended fellow poet John Milton .Milton later wrote a marvelous recommendation for the post of Assistant Latin Secretary to the  Council of State for Andrew for Marvell ,which he soon occupied in 1657 .

As a great supporter of the King under Commonwealth ,Marvell became an adherent of Cromwell and began tutoring  his nephew and ward , William Dutton of Eton , In the Summer of 1657.

When September came , Marvell was appointed assistant to John Milton Latin Secretary for the Commonwealth and was paid a salary of  $ 200 , the same as Milton , only a life pension .

In 1659 , Marvell was elected to parliament from his hometown , Hull , and continued to hold the post until his death .

During the last twenty years of his life , Marvell came even more politically active , taking part in diplomacy with Holland and Russia and writing political pamphlets and satires . His political maneuvering was most skillful convincing Charles II to not behead Milton for his anti - monarchical writings and revolutionary activities and punishment for his own cooperation with Republicanism .

On August 16 , 1678 , Andrew Marvell died of tertian ague ( and  malpractice ). He was then buried in the church of St . Giles -in - the - fields .