Title: Metaphysical poetry /
Authors: Burrow, Colin.
Publisher: Penguin,
Year: 2006
Subjects: English poetry; Metaphysics Poetry.
Abstract: "Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivaled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This collection includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally fascinating poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Widely varied in theme, all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors, imagery and language to express the uncertainty of an age, and a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets and in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T.S. Eliot" --
Contents: Sir Henry Wotton -- John Donne -- Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Aurelian Townshend -- Sir Francis Kynaston -- Sir Robert Ayton -- Henry King -- Francis Quarles -- George Herbert -- Christopher Harvey -- Thomas Carew -- Thomas Beedome -- Owen Felltham -- Thomas Randolph -- William Habington -- Sir Willliam Davenant -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Sidney Godolphin -- William Cartwright -- Anne Bradstreet -- Richard Crashaw -- John Cleveland -- William Hammond -- Thomas Philipot -- Robert Heath -- Samuel Pick -- Abraham Cowley -- Richard Lovelace -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- James Paulin -- Thomas Stanley -- 'Eliza' -- John Hall -- Katherine Philips -- Thomas Traherne -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Richard Leigh -- Thomas Heyrick.