Fallowing attending Trinity College, Cambridge, Marvell went on the Grand Tour; while England was embroiled in the civil war from 1642 to 1647, Marvell was on the continent. Fallowing giving, he worked when private instructor to the girl of Thomas Fairfax, who experienced recently given command of Parliamentary army to Oliver Cromwell. Inside 1657, Marvell joined Milton, who by that period experienced misplaced his sight, in the post of Latin secretary to Cromwell's Council of State. Inside 1659 he was elected to Parliament from his hometown of Hull in Yorkshire; in 1660 the monarchy was restored. His political maneuvering must have been proficient, because he non merely avoided a lot penalization for his cooperation by owning republicanism but helped convince the government of Charles II not to execute Milton for his antimonarchical writings and radical activities. (Marvell too contributed an silver-tongued introductory poem to the second edition of Paradise Lost.)

From either 1659 until his death, Marvell was the painstaking parliamentarian, answering letters from either his constituents & running in ii diplomatic missions, 1 to Holland and the other to Russia. He besides wrote prose satires (anonymously, of course) criticizing a monarchy, defending Puritan dissenters, and denouncing censorship. He is occasionally referred to as a "British Aristides" for his incorruptible integrity in life & poorness at dying.

Renowned poems include To His Coy Mistress ( to which T. S. Eliot refers in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) and The Garden.