Andrew Marvell in the 1946 British film "A Matter of Life and Death". It is also referenced in Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife" and Emily Colin's "The Memory Thief". The 1969 song "Beggin' Your Pardon" by cult American psychedelic rock band "Morgen" references Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress" Several works of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery also allude to "To His Coy Mistress". Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell (; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth
Metaphysical poets and ‘bright’; by Shakespeare, contrasting ‘black’ and various meanings of ‘fair’; and by Edward Herbert, where black, dark and night contrast with light, bright and spark. Black hair and eyes are the subject in the English examples, while generally it is the colour of the skin with which Romance poets deal in much the same paradoxical style. Examples include Edward Herbert's “La Gialletta Gallante or The sun-burn'd exotic Beauty” and Marino's “La Bella Schiave” (The Beautiful Slave). Still more dramatically, Luis de Góngora’s "En la fiesta del Santísimo Sacramento" (At the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament) introduces a creole dialogue