num_pages: 274
description: The poetry of John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne has fascinated critics for centuries. Ambivalently received but inescapably influential, their tradition can be traced through some of the best poets of our time. Examine these 17th-century English poets more closely. This title, John Donne and 17th Century Poets, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of John Donne and 17th Century Poets through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on John Donne and 17th Century Poets, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
language: English
title: John Donne and the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical Poets
titlecomplete: John Donne and the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical Poets (Modern Critical Views)
ratings_count: 10
series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views, Bloom's Classic Critical Views
publisher: Chelsea House Pub