MARVELL, Andrew

MARVELL, Andrew
   Pseudonym of UK editor and writer Howell Davies (1896-1985); between the Wars he worked as a theatre critic for the Manchester Evening News and as literary editor of the Star and News Chronicle, later serving as editor of the South American Handbook (1938-69). During the brief time he wrote as AM he published 3 novels. Minimum Man, or Time to be Gone (1938) combinessf and thriller ingredients in its depiction of a 1950 fascist coup in the UK, and of its overthrow by a new race of tiny but very powerful telepathswhose parthenogenetic births were caused by poison gas. Three Men Make a World (1939) is a kind of DISASTER story, though the turning of the UKinto a rural land by petroleum-destroying bacteria may strike modern readers as a catastrophe with a silver lining. Congratulate the Devil (1939), in which a happiness drug is found to be intolerable to society atlarge, describes the process by which its disseminators are hounded to death. AM's novels were professional and engrossing.
   JC/BS
   See also: POLITICS; PSI POWERS; SUPERMAN.

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  • Marvell, Andrew — born March 31, 1621, Winestead, Yorkshire, Eng. died Aug. 18, 1678, London English poet and politician. He was employed as a tutor, including to Oliver Cromwell s ward, before becoming an assistant to John Milton in the foreign office in 1657.… …   Universalium

  • Marvell, Andrew — (1621 1678)    He was born at Winestead in Holderness, Yorkshire, was educated under his father at the grammar school in Hull, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1637, and left sometime before September 1641. He traveled in Europe,… …   British and Irish poets

  • Marvell,Andrew — Mar·vell (märʹvəl), Andrew. 1621 1678. English metaphysical poet whose frequently satirical work includes the poems “To His Coy Mistress” (1650) and “The Definition of Love” (1681). * * * …   Universalium

  • Marvell, Andrew — ► (1621 78) Escritor inglés, partidario de Cromwell. Autor de Últimas instrucciones a un pintor. * * * (31 mar. 1621, Winestead, Yorkshire, Inglaterra–18 ago. 1678, Londres). Poeta y político inglés. Se ganó la vida como tutor, entre otros del… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • MARVELL, ANDREW —    poet and politician, born at Worcester; was first a lyric poet, and in politics much of a Royalist, at last a violent politician on the Puritan side, having become connected with Milton and Cromwell; he wrote a tract On the Growth of Popery… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Marvell, Andrew — (1621 1678)    Poet and satirist, s. of the Rector of Winestead, Yorkshire, where he was b., ed. Camb., and thereafter travelled in various Continental countries. He sat in Parliament for Hull, proving himself an assiduous and incorruptible… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • Marvell — Marvell, Andrew …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Andrew Marvell — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell nació el 31 de marzo de 1621 en Winestead in Holderness, Yorkshire; y falleció el 16 de agosto de 1678 en su casa en Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, a la edad de 57 años. Poeta,… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Andrew Marvell — (* 31. März 1621 in Winestead bei Patrington, Holderness, Yorkshire; † 16. August 1678 in London) war ein englischer Dichter und Politiker. Er gilt neben John Donne und George Herbert als einer …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Andrew Marvell — Activités Poète et homme politique Naissance 31 mars 1621 Winestead …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Andrew Marvell — noun English poet (1621 1678) • Syn: ↑Marvell • Instance Hypernyms: ↑poet * * * Andrew Marvell [Andrew Marvell] …   Useful english dictionary

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