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This masterpiece was not made in six days or even six years. Stray connections with poems published by Cowley in 1647, Herrick in 1648 and Lovelace in 1647–49 suggest a beginning in England after Marvell’s return from abroad; the Cavalier tone suggests a London beginning. But there is evidence that he worked on the poem again in the 1670s and that its fmal perfection owed much to improvements made then.
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© 1979 Michael Craze
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Craze, M. (1979). To his Coy Mistress. In: The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04588-4_41
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