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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... Flowers 114 FRANCIS QUARLES On Those that Deserve it On Zacheus A Forme of Prayer Wherefore hidest thou thy face My beloved is mine , and I am his 115 116 116 117 118 GEORGE HERBERT The Agonie Redemption Easter - wings Affliction Prayer ...
... Flowers 114 FRANCIS QUARLES On Those that Deserve it On Zacheus A Forme of Prayer Wherefore hidest thou thy face My beloved is mine , and I am his 115 116 116 117 118 GEORGE HERBERT The Agonie Redemption Easter - wings Affliction Prayer ...
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... Flower Aaron The Forerunners Discipline Death Love THOMAS CAREW An Elegie upon the death of Dr John Donne Mediocritie in love rejected To my inconstant Mistris Perswasions to enjoy Boldnesse in love Elegy on Maria Wentworth To Ben ...
... Flower Aaron The Forerunners Discipline Death Love THOMAS CAREW An Elegie upon the death of Dr John Donne Mediocritie in love rejected To my inconstant Mistris Perswasions to enjoy Boldnesse in love Elegy on Maria Wentworth To Ben ...
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... Flowers The Mower to the Glo - Worms 254 255 The Garden 255 An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland 258 HENRY VAUGHAN Regeneration The Showre The Retreate ' Come , come , what doe I here ? ' The Morning - watch ' Silence ...
... Flowers The Mower to the Glo - Worms 254 255 The Garden 255 An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland 258 HENRY VAUGHAN Regeneration The Showre The Retreate ' Come , come , what doe I here ? ' The Morning - watch ' Silence ...
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... flowers are ' set with Skill and chosen out with Care ' . And Donne in a sermon , speaking of the Psalms as especially dear to him in that they were poems , stresses the same elements of deliberate art ( curiosity ) , and economy of ...
... flowers are ' set with Skill and chosen out with Care ' . And Donne in a sermon , speaking of the Psalms as especially dear to him in that they were poems , stresses the same elements of deliberate art ( curiosity ) , and economy of ...
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... Flowers ' . Equally , when his subject belongs to the ideal world of pastoral , not the world of daily life , his ... flowering of the drama . Metaphysical poetry is the poetry of the great age of our drama . Its master John Donne was ...
... Flowers ' . Equally , when his subject belongs to the ideal world of pastoral , not the world of daily life , his ... flowering of the drama . Metaphysical poetry is the poetry of the great age of our drama . Its master John Donne was ...
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 |
305 | |
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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Page 20 - 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.