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The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including �The Garden,� �The Definition of Love,� �Bermudas,� �To His Coy Mistress,� and the �Horatian Ode� to Cromwell. Marvell�s work is marked by extraordinary variety, ranging from incomparable lyric explorations of the inner life to satiric poems on the famous men and important issues of his time�one of the most politically volatile epochs in England�s history. From the lover�s famous admonition, �Had we but World enough, and Time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime,� to the image of the solitary poet �Annihilating all that�s made / To a green Thought in a green Shade,� Marvell�s poetry has earned a permanent place in the canon and in the hearts of poetry lovers.