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| | §17. Contemporary Poets and Scientific Research: Cowley, Donne, Butler. XV. The Progress of Science. Vol. 8. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Of all the poets of the time, Cowley took, perhaps, the greatest interest in science. |
 | | Cowleys poems were greatly admired during his lifetime, later critics have considered him affected, perhaps because, like Donne, he understood, and was not afraid to use the technical language of the schools. |
 | | Donne, who, like Cowley, indulged in quaint poetical conceits and who founded a new school of poetry, abjuring classical conventions and classical characters, and treating of topics and objects of everyday life, was not afraid of realism. |
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