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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... give up its secrets on a first reading . In the 1590s also formal satire appeared in Eng- lish , and the satirists took as their model Persius , the most ob- scure of Roman satirists , and declared that satire should be ' hard of ...
... give up its secrets on a first reading . In the 1590s also formal satire appeared in Eng- lish , and the satirists took as their model Persius , the most ob- scure of Roman satirists , and declared that satire should be ' hard of ...
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... give . It does not aim at provid- ing , to quote Keats again , ' a little Region to wander in ' , where lovers of poetry ' may pick and choose , and in which images are so numerous that many are forgotten and found new in a second ...
... give . It does not aim at provid- ing , to quote Keats again , ' a little Region to wander in ' , where lovers of poetry ' may pick and choose , and in which images are so numerous that many are forgotten and found new in a second ...
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... give further content to this compari- son of finding meaning in a book and meaning in a face and to the deliberately imprecise words ' strange matters ' . But when Lady Capulet takes up the same comparison to urge Juliet to wed Count ...
... give further content to this compari- son of finding meaning in a book and meaning in a face and to the deliberately imprecise words ' strange matters ' . But when Lady Capulet takes up the same comparison to urge Juliet to wed Count ...
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... give a ' proof by analogy ' of their union , by which he can finally persuade his mistress not to mourn . In another of his unfortunately rare asides on the art of poetry , Donne , again speaking of the Psalms , said : In all Metricall ...
... give a ' proof by analogy ' of their union , by which he can finally persuade his mistress not to mourn . In another of his unfortunately rare asides on the art of poetry , Donne , again speaking of the Psalms , said : In all Metricall ...
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... gives the poem the air of having sprung from the casual overhearing of a chance remark . The manner of metaphysical poetry originates in develop- ments in prose and verse in the 1590s . The greatest glory of that decade is that it saw ...
... gives the poem the air of having sprung from the casual overhearing of a chance remark . The manner of metaphysical poetry originates in develop- ments in prose and verse in the 1590s . The greatest glory of that decade is that it saw ...
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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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.