Metaphysical Poets (Part 1)
Channel: Tamina Park Instructional Design
Date: 2022-02-22

Learn about the key figures of Metaphysical poetry and the socio-historical backdrop that informed their work.

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Music: Le bourgeois gentilhomme - Jean-Baptiste Lully, performed by Advent Chamber Orchestra
Source: https://musopen.org/music/7484-le-bourgeois-gentilhomme-lwv-43/
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Images:
Lord Mayor’s Water Procession on the Thames [oil on canvas], 1683, by unknown artist. Royal Collection Trust, London. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022. https://www.rct.uk/collection/402608/the-lord-mayors-water-procession-on-the-thames
Queen Elizabeth I Opening Parliament [Frontispiece to Complete Journal of the House of Lords and the House of Commons Throughout the Whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth of Glorious Memory], 1693, by Sir Symonds D'Ewes. London. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22862561
John Donne [oil on canvas], 1616, after Isaac Oliver. National Portrait Gallery, London. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01900/John-Donne?LinkID=mp01330&search=sas&sText=john+donne&role=sit&rNo=1
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George Herbert [line engraving], late 17th-early 18th century, by John Sturt. National Portrait Gallery, London. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw131267
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Richard Crashaw, before 1649, by unknown artist. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Richard_Crashaw#/media/File:Richard_Crashaw.jpg
Andrew Marvell [oil on canvas], attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller. Trinity College, Cambridge. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/andrew-marvell-16211678-poet-and-politician-134747 
Abraham Cowley [oil on canvas], c. 1666-1667, by Sir Peter Lely. National Portrait Gallery, London. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01533/Abraham-Cowley?
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Doctor Samuel Johnson [oil on canvas], 1772?, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Tate Gallery, London. Photo © Tate. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/reynolds-doctor-samuel-johnson-n00887
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The Swan [manuscript], 1596, by Aernout van Buchel. Utrecht University Library, Utrecht. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3217262
Francis Bacon, Title page for Novum organum scientiarum, 1645. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Royal Society, Crane Court, off Fleet Street, London: a meeting in progress, with Isaac Newton in the chair [wood engraving], 1883, by John Arthur Quartley. Wellcome Collection, London. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mznmp5qn
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The Battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644 [oil on canvas], by John Joseph Barker. The Wilson, Cheltanham. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-battle-of-marston-moor-2-july-1644-61641
The Execution of Charles I of England [oil on canvas], c. 1649, by unknown Dutch artist. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/king%E2%80%99s-last-day-execution-charles-i
Charles II [oil on canvas], c. 1661-1662, by John Michael Wright. The Royal Collection, London. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022. https://www.rct.uk/collection/404951/charles-ii-1630-1685

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