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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... hand to hand in manuscript . This is a source of both weakness and strength . At times the 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 ...
... hand to hand in manuscript . This is a source of both weakness and strength . At times the 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 ...
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... hand , the poet forces fresh points of likeness upon us . Here the conceit is a kind of ' ham- mering out ' by which a difficult join is made . I borrow the phrase from Shakespeare's poet - king Richard II , who occupies himself in ...
... hand , the poet forces fresh points of likeness upon us . Here the conceit is a kind of ' ham- mering out ' by which a difficult join is made . I borrow the phrase from Shakespeare's poet - king Richard II , who occupies himself in ...
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... hand , Lady Capulet's conceit fails to be metaphysical in another way . She does not force us to con- cede the justness of her initial comparison by developing it , she merely argues from various arbitrarily chosen points of com ...
... hand , Lady Capulet's conceit fails to be metaphysical in another way . She does not force us to con- cede the justness of her initial comparison by developing it , she merely argues from various arbitrarily chosen points of com ...
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... hand- led with a mixture of gallantry , sensibility and good sense that has a peculiar charm : " Tis not how witty , nor how free , Nor yet how beautiful she be , But how much kinde and true to me . This is a very characteristic note ...
... hand- led with a mixture of gallantry , sensibility and good sense that has a peculiar charm : " Tis not how witty , nor how free , Nor yet how beautiful she be , But how much kinde and true to me . This is a very characteristic note ...
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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.