The Metaphysical PoetsHelen Gardner With their intricate arguments, startling conceits and dazzling wit, the seventeenth-century poets who became known as ‘metaphysical’ brought a new ingenuity and energy to English verse. John Donne’s poems are some of the most passionate and profound to b |
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... Poems of John Donne ( 1952 , second edition 1978 ) , The Sonnets of William Alabaster ( edited , with G. M. Story , 1960 ) , The Business of Criticism ( 1960 ) , The Elegies and Songs and Sonnets of John Donne ( 1965 ) , A Reading of ...
... Poems of John Donne ( 1952 , second edition 1978 ) , The Sonnets of William Alabaster ( edited , with G. M. Story , 1960 ) , The Business of Criticism ( 1960 ) , The Elegies and Songs and Sonnets of John Donne ( 1965 ) , A Reading of ...
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... poems . They were ' Chamber poets ' , as Drayton , with the jealousy of the profes- sional for the amateur , complains . Their poems passed from hand to hand in manuscript . This is a source of both weakness and strength . At times the ...
... poems . They were ' Chamber poets ' , as Drayton , with the jealousy of the profes- sional for the amateur , complains . Their poems passed from hand to hand in manuscript . This is a source of both weakness and strength . At times the ...
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... poems , stresses the same elements of deliberate art ( curiosity ) , and economy of language , when he defines psalms as Such a form as is both curious , and requires diligence in the making , and then when it is made , can have nothing ...
... poems , stresses the same elements of deliberate art ( curiosity ) , and economy of language , when he defines psalms as Such a form as is both curious , and requires diligence in the making , and then when it is made , can have nothing ...
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... poem , in which length of line and rhyme scheme artfully enforced the sense . In a poem not included here , ' The Triple Foole ' , Donne suggests , in passing , this con- ception of the function of rhyme and metre : I thought , if I ...
... poem , in which length of line and rhyme scheme artfully enforced the sense . In a poem not included here , ' The Triple Foole ' , Donne suggests , in passing , this con- ception of the function of rhyme and metre : I thought , if I ...
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... poem : I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world : And for because the world is populous , And here is not a creature but myself , I cannot do it ; yet I'll hammer it out . My brain I'll prove the ...
... poem : I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world : And for because the world is populous , And here is not a creature but myself , I cannot do it ; yet I'll hammer it out . My brain I'll prove the ...
Contents
V | 33 |
VI | 35 |
VIII | 36 |
X | 37 |
XI | 39 |
XIII | 41 |
XIV | 44 |
XVI | 45 |
CXXIV | 159 |
CXXV | 160 |
CXXVI | 161 |
CXXIX | 162 |
CXXXI | 163 |
CXXXII | 164 |
CXXXIV | 165 |
CXXXV | 166 |
XVII | 46 |
XVIII | 47 |
XX | 51 |
XXII | 53 |
XXIII | 55 |
XXIV | 57 |
XXV | 58 |
XXVII | 59 |
XXVIII | 60 |
XXIX | 61 |
XXX | 63 |
XXXII | 64 |
XXXIII | 65 |
XXXIV | 66 |
XXXV | 67 |
XXXVI | 68 |
XXXVII | 69 |
XXXVIII | 70 |
XXXIX | 71 |
XL | 72 |
XLI | 73 |
XLII | 74 |
XLIII | 77 |
XLIV | 78 |
XLV | 80 |
XLVI | 81 |
XLVIII | 83 |
L | 85 |
LI | 86 |
LIII | 88 |
LIV | 89 |
LV | 90 |
LVI | 91 |
LVII | 92 |
LVIII | 93 |
LIX | 94 |
LXI | 95 |
LXII | 96 |
LXIII | 100 |
LXIV | 101 |
LXV | 102 |
LXVI | 103 |
LXVIII | 104 |
LXIX | 105 |
LXX | 106 |
LXXI | 107 |
LXXII | 108 |
LXXV | 110 |
LXXVI | 113 |
LXXVII | 114 |
LXXIX | 115 |
LXXX | 116 |
LXXXII | 117 |
LXXXIII | 118 |
LXXXIV | 120 |
LXXXVI | 121 |
LXXXVII | 122 |
LXXXVIII | 124 |
XC | 125 |
XCI | 126 |
XCII | 127 |
XCIV | 128 |
XCV | 129 |
XCVI | 131 |
XCVII | 132 |
XCVIII | 133 |
XCIX | 134 |
C | 135 |
CI | 136 |
CIII | 138 |
CIV | 139 |
CV | 140 |
CVI | 141 |
CVII | 142 |
CVIII | 143 |
CIX | 146 |
CXI | 147 |
CXIII | 148 |
CXV | 150 |
CXVI | 151 |
CXVII | 152 |
CXVIII | 153 |
CXIX | 154 |
CXX | 155 |
CXXI | 157 |
CXXII | 158 |
CXXXVI | 167 |
CXXXIX | 168 |
CXL | 169 |
CXLI | 170 |
CXLII | 174 |
CXLIII | 175 |
CXLIV | 176 |
CXLVI | 177 |
CXLVIII | 178 |
CXLIX | 179 |
CLI | 180 |
CLIII | 181 |
CLIV | 182 |
CLVI | 183 |
CLVIII | 184 |
CLX | 185 |
CLXI | 186 |
CLXII | 188 |
CLXIII | 190 |
CLXIV | 194 |
CLXV | 197 |
CLXVI | 198 |
CLXVIII | 203 |
CLXIX | 208 |
CLXX | 213 |
CLXXI | 215 |
CLXXII | 218 |
CLXXIII | 220 |
CLXXIV | 222 |
CLXXVI | 223 |
CLXXVII | 225 |
CLXXVIII | 227 |
CLXXIX | 228 |
CLXXX | 231 |
CLXXXI | 232 |
CLXXXII | 233 |
CLXXXIII | 234 |
CLXXXIV | 236 |
CLXXXV | 237 |
CLXXXVI | 240 |
CLXXXVII | 241 |
CLXXXVIII | 242 |
CLXXXIX | 244 |
CXC | 245 |
CXCI | 247 |
CXCII | 250 |
CXCIII | 252 |
CXCV | 254 |
CXCVI | 255 |
CXCVIII | 258 |
CXCIX | 262 |
CC | 264 |
CCI | 265 |
CCII | 266 |
CCIII | 267 |
CCIV | 268 |
CCV | 269 |
CCVII | 271 |
CCVIII | 273 |
CCX | 275 |
CCXI | 277 |
CCXII | 279 |
CCXIII | 280 |
CCXIV | 282 |
CCXV | 283 |
CCXVI | 284 |
CCXVIII | 285 |
CCXIX | 286 |
CCXX | 287 |
CCXXI | 288 |
CCXXII | 289 |
CCXXIII | 291 |
CCXXIV | 294 |
CCXXV | 295 |
CCXXVII | 296 |
CCXXIX | 297 |
CCXXX | 299 |
CCXXXI | 300 |
CCXXXII | 301 |
CCXXXIII | 302 |
CCXXXIV | 303 |
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CCXXXVI | 306 |
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A. B. Grosart ABRAHAM COWLEY Angels AURELIAN TOWNSHEND beauty Ben Jonson blest bloud breast breath brest bright conceit Cowley Crashaw dayes dead dear death delight divine Donne doth drest dust e're Earth edition Elegie ev'n ev'ry eyes face fair Fantastick Fate feare fire flame flowers FRANCIS QUARLES friends give glory grace grief hath heart Heaven Helen Gardner Herbert John Donne Jonson joyes King kisse light live Lord lov'd lovers metaphysical poetry mind Mistress ne're night Oxford pleasure Poems poets RICHARD CRASHAW RICHARD LEIGH selfe shalt shee shine sigh sing sinne sleep Song Sonnets soule spheare spirit spring starres Sunne sweet teares tell thee thine things THOMAS TRAHERNE Thou art thou dost thou hast thought true twixt unto verse vertue weeping WILLIAM ALABASTER wilt winde wings
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