Readings of five poems by the metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell, including his best-known carpe diem poem “To his Coy Mistress,” 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.
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