Notable Works: The Temple, The Country Parson, Jacula Prudentum.Died: Ma(aged 39), Bemerton, Wiltshire, England.The first publication of his poems in 1681 resulted from a manuscript volume she found among his effects. His political writings favoured the toleration of religious dissent and attacked the abuse of monarchical power.Īt Marvell’s death, his housekeeper-servant Mary Palmer claimed to be his widow, although this was undoubtedly a legal fiction. He wrote a commendatory poem for the second edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Marvell is also said to have interceded on behalf of Milton to have him freed from prison in 1660. In 1659 he was elected member of Parliament for Hull, an office he held until his death, serving skillfully and effectively.Īfter the restoration of Charles II in 1660, Marvell turned to political verse satires-the most notable was The Last Instructions to a Painter, against Lord Clarendon, Charles’s lord chancellor-and prose political satire, notably The Rehearsal Transpros’d (1672–73). “The First Anniversary” (1655) and “On the Death of O.C.” (1659) showed his continued and growing admiration for Cromwell. In 1657 he became assistant to John Milton as Latin secretary in the foreign office.
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