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Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell ( 1621-1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678 Born Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, near the city of Kingston upon Hull, the son of a Church of England clergyman（牧师）. The family moved to Hull when his father was appointed Lecturer at Holy Trinity Church （圣三一教堂）there, and Marvell was educated at Hull Grammar School. A secondary school in the city, the Andrew Marvell Business and Enterprise College, is now named after him. Life experience At the age of 13, Marvell attended Trinity College, Cambridge and eventually received a BA degree. Afterwards, from the middle of 1642 onwards, Marvell probably travelled in continental Europe. He may well have served as a tutor for an aristocrat on the Grand Tour. Marvell served as tutor to Life experience In 1657, Marvell joined Milton, who by that time had lost his sight, in service as Latin secretary to Cromwells Council of State at a salary of ￡200 a year, which represented financial security at that time. In 1659 Marvell was elected Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Hull in the Third Protectorate Parliament（第三保护国议会）. From 1659 until his death in 1678, Marvell was serving as London agent for the Hull Trinity House, a shipmasters guild. Prose works Marvell also wrote anonymous（匿名的） prose satires criticizing the monarchy（君主政体） and Catholicism, defending Puritan dissenters（反对者）, and denouncing censorship. Although Marvell became a Parliamentarian, he was not a Puritan（清教徒）.During his lifetime, his prose satires were much better known than his verse. Metaphysical poets(玄学派诗人) Andrew Marvel is a famous British metaphysical poets in seventeenth Century. Metaphysical poets is a group of poets in the early 17th century in England , the main members including John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell. Prominent features of metaphysical poetry is the