The Metaphysical Poets

The Metaphysical Poets PDF Author: Helen Gardner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140420388
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
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. In this anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those poets who although never self consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion.