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Meanings of metaphysical poets in English
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Usage of metaphysical poets in English
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I mean, if you think, that's what the metaphysical poets did in England, no?
2
This was a frequent mistake among the so-called " metaphysical poets" of the seventeenth century.
3
See Johnson's criticism of the metaphysical poets.]
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Most people had no idea who the metaphysical poets were and certainly wouldn't be able to name two of them.
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Being involved with literature, I recommended he read the English seventeenth century minor metaphysical poets such as Vaughan and Herbert:
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The metaphysical poets, in their slip-shod pindarics, had totally despised, not only smoothness and elegance but the common rhythm of versification.
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I read the lives of the saints, the metaphysical poets, T. S. Eliot and some of the simpler writings of the mystics.
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The dissertation, in the life of Cowley, on the metaphysical poets of the last century, has the attraction of novelty, as well as sound observation.
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He particularly valued himself on the Life of Cowley, for the sake of those observations which he had introduced into it on the metaphysical poets.
10
Pope "versified" some of Donne's rugged satires, and Johnson quoted passages from him as examples of the bad taste of the metaphysical poets.
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To sum up this long rigmarole, I have, dear B- ,whatyou, no doubt, perceive, for the metaphysical poets as poets, the most sovereign contempt.
12
What is meant by the terms Cavalier poets, Spenserian poets, Metaphysical poets?
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Ibby was an expert on Seventeenth-Century English Metaphysical Poets.
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"I can't imagine anyone choosing to become an expert on the metaphysical poets."
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Once you taste it, you'll know why I can still recite at least one stanza from each of the Metaphysical Poets.
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[Footnote 18: For metaphysical poets, see Brydges' Restituta, vol.
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