How to Read Andrew Marvells Poems

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 3:49 a.m.

Readings of five poems by the metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell, including his best-known carpe diem poem \u201cTo his Coy Mistress,\u201d but also a beautiful extended simile of the soul as a dew-drop; a tense argument between a body and a soul who loathe each other; a meditation on the temptations of worldly pleasures; and a lament of the cruelty of fate.