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Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. He was also a member of parliament, tutor to a ward of Oliver Cromwell s, a satirist and a friend and colleague of Milton s. Yet, apart from one or two anthology pieces like To his Coy Mistress, his final establishment as a major poet has waited on the twentieth century. It was T.S. Eliot himself who finally insisted on Marvell s importance, and his essay of 1921 has set very largely the tone and context of modern criticisms. Elizabeth Story Donno s edition was the first complete edition of Marvell s poetry to appear in paperback. This edition re-examines the textual basis of the poetry and is based on a recent study of the extant manuscripts. Except in special cases, the spelling has been modernized while the punctuation remains as indicated in the original. Modern translations are provided for Marvell s Greek and Latin poems.