Title: The metaphysical passion : seven modern American poets and the seventh-century tradition.
Authors: Raiziss, Sona.; Villa, José García,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 1952
Subjects: American poetry History and criticism; English poetry History and criticism; Comparative literature English and American.; Comparative literature American and English.; Great Britain Intellectual life
Contents: Pt. 1 : The Temper of Metaphysical Poetry -- 1. Definitions -- 2. The Poets and their Subjects -- 3. Methods, Manner, and Mood -- 4. Wit and the Objective Equivalent -- Pt. 2 :Sources of the Metaphysical Impulse -- 5. Time of Transition -- 6. Seventeenth-Century Conflicts -- 7. Analogies -- 8. Twentieth-Century Tensions -- 9. Phases of the Modern Crisis -- Pt. 3 : Seven poets: Text and Context -- 10. T. S. Eliot -- 11. The Fugitives -- 12. MacLeish-Wylie-Crane.