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Definition of Marvell
1. Noun. English poet (1621-1678).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marvell
Literary usage of Marvell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"The next five years he spent on the Continent, and in 1650, when Lord Fairfax
retired to his estates at Nun- appleton, he took Marvell with him as tutor to ..."
2. English Prose: Selections edited by Henry Craik (1908)
"A number of apologists for Parker came out to punish Marvell, who answered ...
In 1676 Marvell found another subject in the Master of St. John's College, ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"Like Milton, Marvell was at Cambridge, and there, after making himself an excellent
Latinist, he graduated, as Milton had before him, in rebellious ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"These Marvell stoutly declined; although the story adds that as soon as his
flattering visitor had gone he was forced to send out for the loan of a guinea. ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1905)
"Like Milton, Marvell was at Cambridge, and there, after making himself an excellent
... In 1650 Marvell became tutor to Mary the daughter of Fairfax, ..."
6. The English Poets by Matthew Arnold (1882)
"Andrew Marvell was not only a public man of mark and the first pamphleteer of
his day, but a lyric and satiric poet. As a lyric poet he still ranks high. ..."
7. The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their by Isaac Disraeli (1868)
"PARKER AND Marvell. Marvell the founder of " a newly-refined art of jeering
buffoonery "— his knack of nicknaming his adversaries—Parker's Portrait—Parker ..."
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