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	metaphysical poets — FactMonster.com
		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.
		George Herbert - Herbert, George Herbert, George, 1593–1633, one of the English metaphysical poets.
		Thomas Traherne - Traherne, Thomas Traherne, Thomas, 1636?–1674, English poet and prose writer, one of the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0832886.html (210 words)

	Metaphysical poets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them.
		Their style was characterised by wit, subtle argumentations and the "metaphysical conceits", an unusual simile or metaphor such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew.
		One of the primary Platonic concepts found in metaphysical poetry was the idea that the perfection of beauty in the beloved acted as a remembrance of perfect beauty in the eternal realm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metaphysical_poets (394 words)

	Donne
		The term "metaphysical poetry" is used to describe a certain type of 17th century poetry.
		Metaphysical poets are generally in rebellion against the highly conventional imagery of the Elizabethan lyric.
		The classic metaphysical conceit is Donne's comparison of the union between two lovers to the two legs of a compass in "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." In Holy Sonnet 14, there are other surprising metaphors--comparing God to a violent invader and a rapist, for instance.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/allen/donne2.htm (341 words)

	Metaphysical Poets: An Introduction.
		Metaphysical concerns are the commonsubject of their poetry, which investigates the world by rationaldiscussion of its phenomena rather than by intuition or mysticism.
		Reacting against the deliberately smoothand sweet tones of much 16th-century verse, the metaphysical poetsadopted a style that is energetic, uneven, and rigorous.
		In his important essay, 'The Metaphysical Poets' (1921), whichhelped bring the poetry of Donne and his contemporaries back intofavour, T. argued that their work fusesreason with passion; it shows a unification of thought and feelingwhich later became separated into a 'dissociation of sensibility'.and#8221;
	www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/metaintro.htm (304 words)

	From courtly love to tough luck love, the topics for English poetry changed with the times
		Metaphysical poems are poems that compare a thing with something dissimilar that normally would not be compared.
		Another way in which metaphysical poems differed from courtly love poems is that there was no distress over a women, in fact they often tried to lead women into encounters which basically implies the woman is already won.
		They also differed from the Cavaliers' poetry because the metaphysical poets showed more intelligence in their writings while the Cavaliers were straight forward with their ideas.
	members.tripod.com /L6I6V6E/englishpoetry.htm (654 words)

	metaphysical poets - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		METAPHYSICAL POETS [metaphysical poets] name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent.
		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.
		The most important metaphysical poets are John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-metaphys-p.html (337 words)

	Metaphysical Poetry
		The combination of the two contextually, both in spirituality, imagery and definitions of time and space; have the unique effect of creating a devout religious protagonist's perceptions of his environment and its history, encompassed in as often was the case one work of art, as a testimony to the period and the Church of England.
		Poets of the era harnessed the tools of poetry to the spiritual essence of their communication create an impact of divine, gospel-like proportions, which were received and regarded as perhaps the most innovative and highly appreciated works of poetry!
		Likewise John Donne an acclaimed poet of his period, and as Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral was a seemingly inexhaustible source of spirituality with which to ordain his poems.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Metaphysical_Poetry.html (2623 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Poets'
		metaphysical poets METAPHYSICAL POETS [metaphysical poets] name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent.
		Cavalier poets CAVALIER POETS [Cavalier poets] a group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son.
		poet laureate POET LAUREATE [poet laureate], title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Poets'&Offset=10 (673 words)

	Paper 14
		He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
		In a metaphysical poem, the conceits are instruments of definition in an argument, or instruments to persuade as opposed to mere decorations.
		Metaphysical Truth, which is nothing but the real Existence of Things, conformable to the Ideas to which we have annexed their Names.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLit/ugrad/hons/materials/metpoet.htm (3469 words)

	Metaphysical - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Metaphysics, branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of ultimate reality.
		Metaphysics is customarily divided into ontology, which deals with...
		Metaphysical Poets, English poets of the early 17th century, such as John Donne, whose work was complex and dramatic and unusual in syntax and...
	encarta.msn.com /Metaphysical.html (213 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		The metaphysical poet may make use of a conceit (an extended metaphor) which juxtaposes apparently unconnected ideas or images so as to startle the reader with their paradoxical nature and force a more deliberate engagement with the poem.
		John Donne, along with similar but distinct poets such as George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughn, developed a poetic style in which philosophical and spiritual subjects were approached with reason and often concluded in paradox.
		Likewise, the Luminarium website, via EDSITEment-reviewed Labyrinth, has a wonderful introduction to the metaphysical poets with links to further reading and other 17th century poets, such as the Cavalier poets, who were contemporaries of the metaphysical poets.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=631 (2163 words)

	Donne and 17th-Century Poetry study questions
		The two main "groups" of poets were the "metaphysical" poets, of whom the greatest was John Donne, and the so-called "Sons of Ben" -- poets who admired and emulated England's first (unofficial) Poet Laureate, Ben Jonson.
		The term "metaphysical" is used to designate the work of 17th-century writers who were part of a school of poets using similar methods and who revolted against the romantic conventionalism of Elizabethan love poetry, in particular the Petrarchan conceit.
		A "metaphysical conceit" is a far-fetched and ingenious extended comparison (or "conceit") used by metaphysical poets to explore all areas of knowledge.
	cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~dschwart/engl204/donne.html (2143 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Metaphysical Poets
		It seems that the Scottish writer William Drummond in around 1630 was one of the first to apply the term “metaphysical” to particular poets, but the critic often associated with the seventeenth-century application of the term is John Dryden.
		Although Johnson’s criticisms of metaphysical poetry are based on the neo-classical assumption that art should imitate given truths, of a general nature, about humankind, they nevertheless identify some of the key characteristics of the metaphysical style, as epitomised by John Donne (1572-1631).
		Metaphysical “wit” is described by Johnson as a “kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike”.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1209 (459 words)

	Documento sin título
		JOHNSON consolidated the argument in THE LIVES OF THE POETS, where he noted (with reference to Cowley) that 'about the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets'.
		He [Donne] affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
		Argument and persuasion, and the use of the conceit as their instrument, are the elements or body of a metaphysical poem.
	web.usal.es /~anlosan/metaphysical.htm (562 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Emily Dickinson
		Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness.
		Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.
		While Dickinson was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/155 (822 words)

	§4. The metaphysical fashion. II. The Sacred Poets. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English ...
		A more serious defect of taste he shares with the poets whom Johnson styled “metaphysical.” The fantastic conceits which fashion approved in secular poetry are drawn into the service of Christian piety; as Chudleigh wrote of Donne’s use of wit in his Divine Poems:
		There is more regard for the quaintness and unexpectedness of a simile than for its beauty or fitness.
		Both poets, too, draw from the senses of smell and taste images which make a modern reader, rightly or wrongly, ill at ease.
	www.bartleby.com /217/0204.html (673 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - John Donne
		He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher.
		The Metaphysical Poets are known for their ability to startle the reader and coax new perspective through paradoxical images, subtle argument, inventive syntax, and imagery from art, philosophy, and religion using an extended metaphor known as a conceit.
		Donne reached beyond the rational and hierarchical structures of the seventeenth century with his exacting and ingenious conceits, advancing the exploratory spirit of his time.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/243 (674 words)

	Amazon.com: The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin Classics): Books: Various,Helen Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I thought it was interesting that the term "Metaphysical Poets" was never used contemporaneously with these poets and their poems, but rather the term is a collective afterthought, coined centuries later...and, it was initially meant as an insult to this type of poetry by those reacting against it in later styles.
		After the poems, you'll find brief biographies of the poets; some might have a little too much 'smart', and there might be a little more name-dropping than is necessary, but the glimpse into the lives of the poets is a valuable part of the whole.
		The poets didn't identify themselves as 'Metaphysical' - that came after they were dead - and their poetry wasn't about Metaphysics as you might understand it.
	www.amazon.com /Metaphysical-Poets-Penguin-Classics/dp/014042038X (1605 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Metaphysical Poets - Marvell, Donne and Herbert
		Metaphysical poetry was originally a style of poetry to describe the poet John Donne's work, but then later extended to a school of 17th century poets.
		This use of metaphysical conceit is common in all the poems, and Marvell's technique of drawing upon philosophy to illustrate his argument gives the poem an intellectual appeal, not just a visual one.
		Where the poets differed in their view of the world, they were linked together by their poetic style and method.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4784.php (2835 words)

	Metaphysical poetry
		Nethercot, Arthur H. "The Reputation of the 'Metaphysical Poets' during the Age of Johnson and the 'Romantic Revival'." Studies in Philology 22 (1925): 81-132.
		Nethercot, Arthur H. "The Reputation of the 'Metaphysical Poets' during the Age of Pope." Philological Quarterly 4 (1925): 161-79.
		Nethercot, Arthur H. "The Reputation of the 'Metaphysical Poets' during the Seventeenth Century." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 23 (1924): 173-98.
	www.english.umd.edu /englfac/WPeterson/ELR/bibliographies/documents/11.html (1212 words)

	Genevieve Taggard's Introduction to Circumference (1929)
		Unless we agree to use Donne as the measure of the metaphysical poet, and draw all others to scale, we must admit to begin with, that in searching for the Metaphysical Poem we are only after an abstraction.
		For the metaphysical poet, Science is the freedom of the universe--and in the future our greatest poets may well be poets of this mind.
		The metaphysician is a poet, often a very great one, but unfortunately he is not known to be a poet, because he strives to clothe his poetry in the language of reason, and hence it follows that he is liable to be a dangerous member of the community."—Karl Pearson: Grammar of Science, Part I, p.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /Maps/poets/s_z/taggard/circum.htm (2184 words)

	DonneDefs
		"The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavor; but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than the ear [.
		"Metaphysical Poetry, in the full sense of the term, is a poetry which, like that of the Divina Commedia, the De Natura Rerum, perhaps like Goethe's Faust, has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the role assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.
		Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the ordour of a rose.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/donnedef.htm (858 words)

	metaphysicals
		The Metaphysical poets are obviously not the only poets to deal with this subject matter, so there are a number of other qualities involved as well:
		By the Neo-Platonists: This group suggests that the poet is attempting to imitate not the world, but the live archetype itself.
		The term "Metaphysical Poet" was first coined by the critic Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and he used it as a disparaging term.
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /English_Literature/period/metaphysicals.html (632 words)

	Metaphysical poetry, the magic the 17th century began
		Metaphysical Poetry by Swift, Wordsworth, Ben Jonson, Edmond Spenser, A.O. Kime and a brief analysis by Henry A. Beers
		You see, from my experience in writing metaphysical poetry in volume over the past eight years, I knew there was a connection to the spirit world but didn't know at the time it was generally acknowledged.
		In referring to this English poet in his book From Chaucer to Tennyson (1894 edition), Henry Beers wrote "His aerial creations resemble the blossoms of the epiphytic orchids, which have no root in the soil, but draw their nourishment from the moisture of the air.” He then injected this Spenser poem...
	matrixbookstore.biz /poetry.htm (1934 words)

	Teaching in the School of Donne
		The metaphysical poets ranked high on the list of subjects for English composition because, in addition to affording aesthetic gratification, they provided unequaled opportunities to display mental gymnastics.
		Thus, Donne adheres strictly to the unconventional conventions of the metaphysical poets in "The Flea." Through style, he maintains the metaphysical conceit, comparing his love with a flea.
		And the metaphysical poets are excellent subjects for projects in library research, to which the students have been introduced through their etymological investigations.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~smarx/Publications/teaching_donne.html (2582 words)

	Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry
		Your essay should be a detailed analysis of the poem (at least 750 words), including the above elements, as well as a discussion of the author's purpose in the poem and its biographical, political or religious venue.
		Metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that systematically investigates the nature of first principles and the problems of ultimate reality: it includes the study of being (ontology) and the study of the structure of the universe (cosmology).
		Poets speak in their own persona or create dramatically different characters: self-dramatization more than self-expression, internal dramatic conflict
	faculty.mccfl.edu /Jonesj/Enl2010/MetaphysicalandCavalier.htm (220 words)

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