METAPHYSICAL POETS

name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent. The term was first used by Samuel Johnson (1744). The hallmark of their poetry is the metaphysical conceit (a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images), a reliance on intellectual wit, learned imagery, and subtle argument. Although this method was by no means new, these men infused new life into English poetry by the freshness and originality of their approach. The most important metaphysical poets are John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell. Their work has considerably influenced the poetry of the 20th cent.

See studies by H. C. White (1936, repr. 1962), J. F. Bennett (3d ed. 1964), H. Gardner, ed. (1967), G. Williamson (1967), P. Beer (1972), P. Grant (1974), and M. DiCesare, ed. (1988).

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The Metaphysical Passion: Seven Modern American Poets and the Seventeenth-Century Tradition
Book by Sona Raiziss; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952
Subjects: American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Literature, Comparative--American And English, Literature, Comparative--English And American, Poetry
6. The Lives of the Poets, vol. IX of The Works of...Nethercot, "The Term 'Metaphysical Poets' Before Johnson...The Pejorative Use of 'Metaphysical,'" Modern Language Notes...reflect upon the earth; Be metaphysical, disdaining to Fix upon...
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Three Metaphysical Poets
Book by Margaret Willy; The British Council, 1961
Subjects: Crashaw, Richard--1613?-1649, Poetry, Traherne, Thomas--D. 1674, Vaughan, Henry--1622-1695
...Critical Studies: METAPHYSICAL POETS Donne, Herbert...existing biography of the poet, and a detailed examination...writings. ANTHOLOGIES METAPHYSICAL LYRICS AND POEMS OF...Bullough. Oxford 1934 METAPHYSICAL POETS , edited by H. Gardner...
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Four Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw
Book by Joan Bennett; Cambridge University Press, 1953
Subjects: Crashaw, Richard--1613?-1649, Donne, John--1572-1631, English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Herbert, George--1593-1633, Vaughan, Henry--1622-1695
...such cases, the reader or the poet is to blame. There may actually be a cleavage between the poets image and his original impulse...In Wordsworths phrase: the poet must create the taste by which he is to be judged. The metaphysical poets demand a continual breakdown...
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John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets
Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1986
Subjects: Donne, John--1572-1631--Criticism And Interpretation, English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--17th Century, Marvell, Andrew--1621-1678--Criticism And Interpretation, Metaphysics In Literature
...meditative" qualities in this poetry ... "Metaphysical" poems tend to begin abruptly, in the midst...appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ... The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to shew their...
5.
T.H. Jones: Poet of Exile
Book by P. Bernard Jones, Don Dale-Jones; University of Wales Press, 2001
Subjects: Exiles In Literature, Jones, T. Harri--(Thomas Harri)--1921-1965, Poets, Welsh--20th Century--Biography, Wales--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Welsh--Australia--Biography
...but at their best all metaphysical poets employ imagery that...conceit. The true metaphysical image is a symbol of...sensitivity, as a poet, to the texts: he...on his practice as poet and creative insights...he demonstrates how metaphysical poetry reflects the...however, and he uses the poets psychological states...
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Two Medieval Hebrew Devotional Poems Convention, Evaluation, and "platonic" vs "metaphysical" Poetry
Journal article by Reuven Tsur; Style, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Poetry, Poets
...platonic" vs "metaphysical" Poetry by Reuven...praise an outstanding poet as superior to others...mention that the other poets were inferior. The...homage to some great poet by writing a poem...In contrast to the metaphysical conceit, there is...
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Anthologizing P.k. Page: the Case of a Protean Poet
Journal article by Marilyn J. Rose; Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Anthologies, Literary canon, Literary criticism, Page, P K, Poetry, Poets
...notion that Page is above all a poet of clear, detached and economical...as a poet who combines "the metaphysical and the social protest schools...1983) that in Pages work the poet is a "dreamer" with "access...imagined to have "chofsen the poet" (501-502). As for our...Gary Geddess 75 Canadian Poets X 3 (2001) includes some...
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Through the Poet's Eye: the Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky
Journal article by George Z. Gasyna; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Brodsky, Joseph, Herbert, Zbigniew, History & criticism, Literature, Nonfiction, Poets, Shallcross, Bozena, Travel, Travel literature, Zagajewski, Adam
...Bozena Shallcross: Through The Poets Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski...peregrinations of three East European poets and essayists with a quotation from the poet Elizabeth Bishop (a noted...trippers aside, what do the poets and writers who are forced...intensely visual manner-as a metaphysical journey. Their views are sustained...
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When Poets Take Up Arms: Combating (Hyper)real Wars under the Abstractions of the New Empire
Journal article by Bridie Mccarthy; Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: East and West--Evaluation, East-West relations--Evaluation, Poetic techniques--Influence, Poetic techniques--Political aspects, Poetics--Influence, Poetics--Political aspects, Poets--Political activity, Political poetry--Criticism and interpretation
...theorem whose lexicon lends to these poets an active and germane mode of analysis...of the fatal strategies (5) of these poets, as they linguistically force the New...Forbes thought of himself as a public poet--his frequent recourse to the ode...which now operate everywhere, these poets articulate how our collective desires...by it. The fatal strategies of these poet-terrorists are to criticise the West...
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The Woman as Political Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Mid-Century Canon
Journal article by John Timberman Newcomb; Criticism, Vol. 37, 1995
Subjects: Feminism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Millay, Edna St. Vincent--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...which has sufficed for the poet in such earlier works as...hortatory address conveying the poets prescient outrage at the worlds...did not treat it as a vague metaphysical abstraction but instead as...with the effects of a woman poet, who almost ignores or almost...intellectual effects of other poets" (79-80). This twinned...presumably be generated for any poet as he or she aged. But in Millays case the poets physical condition took on...
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The Life of a Poet
Magazine article by Bruce Cole; Humanities, Vol. 25, March 2004
Subjects: Academic achievement, Careers, Hecht, Anthony, Humanities, Poetry, Poets, Professional relationships, Pulitzer prizes
...thats how I became a poet. COLE: Does one prepare...intention of becoming a poet, but just by being a...that way. The first poets I admired, apart from...George Herbert, the metaphysical poets. I found them...Have your tastes in poets and authors of prose...quoting-that being a poet is about a mode of life...
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The Education of the Poet: A Colloquy with Richard Howard and Marilyn Hacker
Magazine article; The Antioch Review, Vol. 58, Summer 2000
Subjects: Authors--Behavior, Editors--Behavior, Literary magazines--Management, Literary newspapers and periodicals--Management, Poets--Behavior, Writers--Behavior
...Hacker: If there is an American poet who is Whitmans heir, it is...Whitmanic moments in other poets works. Marianne Moores "A...Whitman in it than any other poet. Hall: Did you have an experience...Columbia, I met a group of young poets. We were a nest of singing...Elizabethan, Jacobean, metaphysical ... he was much more learned...
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Emily Dickinson: Quintessential American Poet
Magazine article by Michael Timko; World and I, Vol. 25, September 2010
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily--Appreciation, Dickinson, Emily--Works, Poetic structure--Analysis, Poetic techniques--Methods, Poetics--Methods, Poets--Appreciation, Poets--Works
...Dickinson: Quintessential American Poet. by Michael Timko When one...the quintessential American poet. As one writer has said, Dickinson...American life, personal, social, metaphysical, psychological, ethical...reveals a great deal about the poet herself and the style and ideas...
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Why the Most Famous Welsh Poet Writes in English
Magazine article by Rosemary Markham; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, March 1994
Subjects: English poetry--Welsh authors, Poets--Attitudes, Thomas, R.S.--Attitudes
Why the most famous Welsh poet writes in English by Rosemary Markham TO a poet, words are volunteers. R. S. Thomas has said that...he being an inspirational rather than a systematic poet. He has always been his own puzzle, lonely, (The...
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The Golden Ruhl: There's a Mix of the Mythic, the Metaphysical and the Mundane in the Audacious Plays of Sarah Ruhl
Magazine article by Celia Wren; American Theatre, Vol. 22, October 2005
Subjects: Dramatists, Passion Play (Play), Playwrights, Ruhl, Sarah--Works
...a Mix of the Mythic, the Metaphysical and the Mundane in the Audacious...spareness, masking an almost metaphysical intensity; and a quirky...her writing is that shes a poet who is able to drive plot; many poets in the theatre are not...agrees that theres a certain metaphysical weight to her most-produced...
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What Are Poets for in a Post Po-Mo Society?
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 6, 2009
Subjects: Poets
...philosophy, is the embodiment of metaphysical realities, which are the...of ldquo;Truth, rdquo; poets should make poetry accessible...for instance, of an Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore or the...poems from young generation of poets is parallel to the gathering...choice and decide which poem or poet is worthy of inclusion and...not only to consider the poet rsquo;s achievements and...generation of young Filipino poets. Even so, its ambitious...
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LONG-LOST LETTERS OF A GREAT POET; Only Now, Nearly 45 Years after His Death, Is the True Breadth and Scale of T.S. Eliot's Literary Legacy Becoming Apparent to a Larger Readership -- Thanks to a New Initiative from His Publisher; BOOK OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 5, 2009
Subjects: Eliot, T.S., Poets, Publishing industry
LONG-LOST LETTERS OF A GREAT POET; Only Now, Nearly 45 Years after His...lectures under the title The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (1992), edited by Ronald Schuchard...proclaiming Eliot the Nations Favourite Poet, its idle to pretend this huge volume...
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FAREWELL, SORLEY MACLEAN; Great Poet Who Championed the Gaelic Language Dies in Highlands
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 25, 1996
...SORLEY MACLEAN; Great Poet Who Championed the Gaelic...world lost a great Celtic poet and champion of the Gaelic...The 85-year-old poets death at Raigmore Hospital...language. Influenced by the metaphysical poets, alongside ancient and...Another friend, the Scots poet Ian Crichton Smith who...
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Mexican Poet Shines His 'Light' on India
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, April 6, 1997
Subjects: India, Paz, Octavio
...with India that the Mexican poet (who won the Nobel Prize in...Seal on Rakhasas Ring" by the poet Vishakhadatta, was "turned...much as anything, as in the poets picturing how "like an enormous metaphysical boa, Hinduism slowly and relentlessly...
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Our Poet President, Gracious in Victory
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 30, 2011
Our Poet President, Gracious in Victory. Byline...greater set of values. Or maybe it was his metaphysical reflection on our shared island and its...fancy of old. Michael D is, after all, a poet politician who penned an ode for his daughters...
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encyclopedia articles on: Metaphysical Poets  - 22 results

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Metaphysical Poets
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
METAPHYSICAL POETS name given to a group of English lyric...The hallmark of their poetry is the metaphysical conceit (a figure of speech that...their approach. The most important metaphysical poets are John Donne, George Herbert...
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English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sidney was Sir Walter Raleigh poet, historian, courtier, explorer...dramatist and one of the greatest poets of all time. The Jacobean...and John Webster (the best poet of this grim genre). Novelty...Revolution in 1642. The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson...traditions the Cavalier and the metaphysical (see Cavalier poets and metaphysical...
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Herbert, George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERBERT, GEORGE 1593 1633, one of the English metaphysical poets . Of noble family, he was the brother of Baron...The 20th-century revival of interest in the metaphysical poets has stressed Herbert. See his complete works edited...
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Conceit
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...relationship. The Elizabethan poets were fond of Petrarchan conceits...The device was also used by the metaphysical poets , who fashioned conceits that were...violence together." Such modern poets as Emily Dickinson and T. S...
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Cowley, Abraham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ABRAHAM koo le, kou , 1618 67, one of the English metaphysical poets . He published his first volume of verse, Poetical...See Samuel Johnsons essay in Lives of the English Poets (1778); biographies by A. H. Nethercot (1931...
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