Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler
by Herbert J. C. Grierson (Editor)
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This classic anthology, first published in 1921, has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy. This new edition includes the same poems as the original--love poems, divine poems, elegies, satires, epistles, and meditations by over twenty-five different poets ranging from Suckling and Donne to Marvell and Herbert. Grierson's brilliant introductory essay is included, while Alastair Fowler show more has contributed a new introduction and notes and modernized the spellings throughout. show lessTags
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- Metaphysical Poetry. Donne to Butler
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- John Donne; Milton
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- Metaphysical poetry, in the full sense of the term, is a poetry which, like that of the Divina Commedia, the De Natura Rerum, perhpas Goeth's Faust, has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the role... (show all) assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.
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