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Johnson's Divided Mind

Magazine article by Adam Kirsch; New Criterion, Vol. 24, April 2006

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Johnson, Samuel (English writer)--Works, Lives of the Poets (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation

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...beginning. When Johnson writes that the Metaphysical poets are "not successful in representing...Conversely, in the "Life of Cowley," the Metaphysical poets earn his disapproval because "They...observation." It follows that, as with the Metaphysical poets, "whatever is improper or vicious...
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Wit

Magazine article by Celia Wren; Commonweal, Vol. 126, January 29, 1999

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Theater--Reviews

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...A thought to Donne was an experience," T. S. Eliot wrote in his seminal essay "The Metaphysical Poets," in which he posited that metaphysical poets, like Donne, were among the last English writers able to "feel their thought as immediately...
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Donne's "Dialogue of One"

Magazine article by Paul Dean; New Criterion, Vol. 25, January 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Donne: The Reformed Soul (Book)--Book reviews

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...Donne was inaugurated by T. S. Eliot in his essay "The Metaphysical Poets" of 1921, modified ten years later by "Donne in Our Time...meter. Johnson had conceded that "to write on their the Metaphysical poets plan, it was at least necessary to read and think." "In...
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While We're at It

Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2007

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Authors--Works, Eberstadt, Mary--Works, Philosophers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religion and politics--Analysis, Religion--Social aspects, Religious beliefs--Social aspects, Religious newspapers and periodicals--Names, Religious periodicals--Names, Writers--Works

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...age." Really? Dr. Johnson dubbed Donne and others as "metaphysical poets," and interest in them faded in the eighteenth and nineteenth...Kirschs use of the term. The critical judgment was that the metaphysical poets were convoluted, obscure, and too clever by half. Donne...
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T/K : The Passion of John Donne

Magazine article by Laurie Morrow; World and I, Vol. 18, June 2003

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Donne, John--Appreciation, Donne, John--Criticism and interpretation, Donne, John--History, Donne, John--Religious aspects, England--History, England--Religious aspects, Poets--Appreciation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--History, Poets--Religious aspects

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...Six weeks later, he died, on March 31, 1631. Donne is remembered as the father of Metaphysical poetry, a term coined by Dryden. Metaphysical poetry is noted for the use of condensed, highly complex metaphors, called "conceits." The...

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Double (Quick) English; Exclusive Mirrorman Attempts Revolutionary 8-Minute Lesson

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 15, 2007

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...time I was in a class studying poetry, a small bespectacled chap stood at a blackboard reciting Robert Browning and the Metaphysical Poets. But 25 years later at pioneering Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyneside, I sat among 15 and 16-year-olds...
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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

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...the cause of Gaelic in schools and played a major role in safeguarding the future of the language. Influenced by the metaphysical poets, alongside ancient and more contemporary Celtic literature and song, he embarked on a crusade to invigorate the literary...
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I Forgot I Was Taught That ... Book Takes Us All Back to School

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 29, 2008

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...selection of things that youll be glad we reminded you about. LITERATURE John Donne (1572 - 1631, English) THE greatest of the metaphysical poets (a loose term for a group of 17th century poets whose work investigated the world using intellect rather than intuition...
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Football: WHAT THEY Should've SAID LAST YEAR

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 2, 2006

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...the fans might think Im proud of myself NEIL LENNON: Whenever Im suspended or have some free time, I lose myself in the metaphysical poetry of John Donne or Aristotles essays on deductive logic, thats when Im not chilling to Bachs violin concertos, of course...
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A Critic Tells All; Lured from Lorain by Books

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 26, 2003

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...and instructed him: a favorite high school French teacher, an inspiring classicist at Oberlin, a hard driving teacher of metaphysical poetry at Cornell. His "favorite teacher of all" was Mathis Szykowski, an expert on the 19th century novel who also taught a...

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Metaphysical Poets

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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METAPHYSICAL POETS name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent...freshness and originality of their approach. The most important metaphysical poets are John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne...
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Herbert, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...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...
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Vaughan, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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VAUGHAN, HENRY von, 1622 95, one of the English metaphysical poets . Born in Breconshire, Wales, he signed himself Silurist, after the ancient inhabitants of that region. After leaving Oxford, where...
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Crashaw, Richard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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CRASHAW, RICHARD krash o, 1612? 1649, one of the English metaphysical poets . He was graduated from Cambridge in 1634 and remained there as a fellow at Peterhouse until the Puritan uprising, when he fled...
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Cowley, Abraham

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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COWLEY, ABRAHAM koo le, kou , 1618 67, one of the English metaphysical poets . He published his first volume of verse, Poetical Blossoms (1633), when he was 15. While a student at Cambridge, Cowley wrote...

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