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"To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. [2] This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best recognised carpe diem poem in English ...
"To His Coy Mistress", Marvell's most celebrated poem, combines an old poetic conceit (the persuasion of the speaker's lover by means of a carpe diem philosophy) with Marvell's typically vibrant imagery and easy command of rhyming couplets. Other works incorporate topical satire and religious themes.
To His Coy Mistress; The Unfortunate Lover; The Gallery; The Fair Singer; Mourning; Daphnis and Chloe; The Definition of Love; The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers; The Match; The Mower Against Gardens; Damon the Mower; The Mower to the Glo-Worms; The Mower's Song; Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes; Musicks Empire; The Garden
His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats. He was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen. He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems, including one in response to the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.
Simmons's collection of short stories, Worlds Enough & Time, takes its name from the first line of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by English poet Andrew Marvell: "Had we but world enough, and time" [16] The detective in Flashback is named Nick Bottom after a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [17]
"To have squeezed the universe into a ball" (92) and "indeed there will be time" (23) echo the closing lines of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. Other phrases such as, "there will be time" and "there is time" are reminiscent of the opening line of that poem: "Had we but world enough and time". [27]
Andrew Marvell (died 1678), Miscellaneous Poems, [1] including "To His Coy Mistress" John Oldham, published anonymously Satyrs upon the Jesuits (the first "Satyr Upon the Jesuits" had been published in 1679 in the form of a broadside under the title Garnets Ghost) [1] Some New Pieces Never Before Publisht
Pages in category "Poems published posthumously" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. ... To His Coy Mistress; Toute la Lyre; Tulips (poem) U.