Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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... writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets , " his " may be termed " indicates that he did not consider that ... writing in 1693 , said of Donne : He affects the metaphysics , not only in his satires , but in his amorous verses ...
... writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets , " his " may be termed " indicates that he did not consider that ... writing in 1693 , said of Donne : He affects the metaphysics , not only in his satires , but in his amorous verses ...
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... writer - and so invites us to look at metaphysical poetry in a wider context . Like the later term " metaphysical ... writing . Thus Burton , in the preface to The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) , contrasts his own " loose free style ...
... writer - and so invites us to look at metaphysical poetry in a wider context . Like the later term " metaphysical ... writing . Thus Burton , in the preface to The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) , contrasts his own " loose free style ...
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... writing has the smell of a coterie , the writer performing with a self - conscious eye on his clever readers . But at its best it has the ease and artistic sincerity which comes from being able to take for granted the understanding of ...
... writing has the smell of a coterie , the writer performing with a self - conscious eye on his clever readers . But at its best it has the ease and artistic sincerity which comes from being able to take for granted the understanding of ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry 3 | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
HELEN GARDNER The Metaphysical Poets | 50 |
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