John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Southwell, John Donne, Richard Crashaw form part of the 17th century poets who became known as metaphysical.
This edition also includes detailed notes, a chronology and further reading. Colin Burrow is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Heywood, Ellis, 14 Heywood, jasper, 14 Heywood, John, 14 Hill, Christopher, 234n., 235n., 237n. Hill, Geoffrey, 49n. Hobbes, Thomas, 205, 267 Hodgkins, Christopher, 99n. Hooker, Richard, 91, 97n. Hopkins, David, 263m.
These poems are done by 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry.
This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems.
Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of John Donne and other metaphysical poets.
The diversity of language, albeit having a common basis, is demonstrated in the course of this work.
This annotated edition includes the eight Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry that Eliot delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1926, and their revision and extension for his three Turnbull Lectures at Johns Hopkins University in ...
He went up to Oxford, studied law in London, wrote some astounding religious poetry, and died in 1695. The very best of Henry Vaughan's Metaphysical poems appear in this book, pieces filled with a 'deep, but dazzling darkness'.
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