Although the century which followed Andrew Marvell's death remembered him primarily as a politician and a pamphleteer, this gifted poet is responsible for some of the most brilliant lyric exploration of his time. World Enough and Time is an extensive biography written by Nicholas Murray, a biographer whose literary scholarship and political astuteness matches that of his subject.
Nicholas Murray has written acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin and Matthew Arnold (SMP 1996). He is married and lives in Powys, Wales.