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| | 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 inventive, elaborate style was characterised by learned imagery and subtle argumentation, and the "metaphysical conceit", a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew. | | | 17th C. English Literature: Metaphysical Poets by Anniina Jokinen |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Metaphysical Poets |
| | 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). | | | Instead of supplying a truthful depiction of the way things and human beings are, metaphysical poets distort reality through their perverse combinations of ideas: “the most heterogeneous ideas”, says Johnson, are “yoked by violence together” (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, vol. | | | There is arguably no “uniformity of sentiment” in the poem, to use Johnson’s phrase, and arguably no general truth to be grasped about the nature of love. |
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| | Poets' articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | 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. | | | He was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. | | | metaphysical poets METAPHYSICAL POETS [metaphysical poets] name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent. |
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| | Metaphysical Poetry |
| | John Milton (1608-74), was an English poet, the son of a composer of some distinction. | | | One such poet was John Milton whose epic work Paradise Lost (written in 1667) was ultimately the last and great Adamite3 work. | | | The sun is employed as a metaphysical conceit, with man being able to block it and the other element with a single wink. |
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| | The metaphysical poets turned to the medieval scholastic philsophers for stylistic inspiration, borrowing from them the terminology and the difficulty of their style of argument. | | | Using the term "Metaphysical Poets" to describe these very diverse writers doesn't necessarily mean they shared a common world view--only that they held in common a poetic style and a way of organizing thought. | | | Donne's later passion is more complex than that explored in his youth: it is a blend of the hope and anguish that marks the religious man's search for the right relationship with his God, when he is aware not only of God's greatness but also of his own comparative unworthiness. |
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| | Paper 14 |
| | The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour. | | | 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. | | | Metaphysical Truth, which is nothing but the real Existence of Things, conformable to the Ideas to which we have annexed their Names. |
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http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLit/ugrad/hons/materials/metpoet.htm
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| | Metaphysical poetry |
| | Nethercot, Arthur H. "The Reputation of the 'Metaphysical Poets' during the Seventeenth Century." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 23 (1924): 173-98. | | | Riemer, A. "The Poetry of Religious Paradox--T. Eliot and the Metaphysicals." Sydney Studies in English 8 (1982-1983): 80-88. | | | "Angielscy poeci metafizyczni XVII wieku [English Metaphysical Poets in the Seventeenth Century]." Przeglad Humanistyczny 4-5 (1960): 47-74. |
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| | In his 1921 essay "The Metaphysical Poets," T.S. Eliot uses the term "dissociation of sensibility" to describe how poets in the 17th century adopted a kind of disjunction between thought and feeling: what resulted was poets who thought but neither felt their thoughts nor fused thought and feeling in their poetry. | | | Herbert's use of shaped verse is rooted both in the use of the "hieroglyph" in Christian art throughout the Renaissance and in the emblematic tradition. | | | His poetry reveals that Vaughan is acutely aware of a veil separating time from eternity, as well as man from God, and that in his verse he constantly attempts to penetrate this separation and close the breach. |
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http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/meta.htm
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| | 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. | | | If teaching other 17th century poets, also review the Cavalier poets, who were contemporaries of the metaphysical poets. | | | 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. |
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| | PlanetPapers - The Metaphysical Poets - Marvell, Donne and Herbert |
| | 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. | | | This is what makes the metaphysical school of poets so unique, and is also a factor of their wit and humour. | | | Where the poets differed in their view of the world, they were linked together by their poetic style and method. |
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| | Donne |
| | 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. | | | Samuel Johnson later used the term "metaphysical poetry" to describe the specific poetic method used by poets like Donne. | | | In addition to challenging the conventions of rhythm, the metaphysical poets also challenged conventional imagery. |
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http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/english/allen/donne2.htm
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| | Donne and 17th-Century Poetry study questions |
| | This ruggedness goes naturally with the Metaphysical poets' attitude and purpose: a belief in the perplexity of life, a spirit of revolt, and the putting of an argument in speech rather than song. | | | 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. | | | Be sure you know what is meant by the terms "metaphysical poetry" and "metaphysical conceit" as well as which poets are commonly counted as "metaphysical" poets. |
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| | Metaphysical Poetry. - Coursework.Info |
| | In love poetry, the metaphysical poets often draw on ideas from Renaissance Neo-Platonism to show the relationship between the soul and body and the union of lovers' souls | | | 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 itself, metaphysical means dealing with the relationship between spirit to matter or the ultimate nature of reality. |
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| | donne metaphysical - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Jonson and Donne shared not only...Herbert and Donne were the principal metaphysical poets, the meditative...ranked with the metaphysical poets, the highly...traditions of both Donne and Jonson. | | | He nicknamed Donne and his followers the metaphysical poets, and he culled...Du Bartas preceded the metaphysical poems of Donne, and was probably as... | | | Indeed, it is probably fair to...Johnson when he wrote in his Lives of the Poets: The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was... |
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| | Genevieve Taggard's Introduction to Circumference (1929) |
| | 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. | | | Such a labor is not the work of one man; a poet may only perform it with some group to pick and cull for him. | | | 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. |
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http://www.english.uiuc.edu/MAPS/poets/s_z/taggard/circum.htm
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| | History of LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
| | The term Metaphysical has been applied, with no very good reason, to a group of English poets of the early 17th century who share a love of intellectual ingenuity, literary allusion and paradox, and who use language, images and rhythms of a kind not conventionally 'poetic' to startle the reader into thought. | | | In the developing conflict between the Anglican monarchy and puritan parliament, Milton's sympathies are on the side of parliament - in whose endeavours he sees the best hope for his own central concern, that of liberty for the individual citizen. | | | The writing of this great work by the blind poet provides one of the most evocative scenes of English literary history. |
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| | Studying the Metaphysical Poets |
| | But, the poet concludes, this is self-deception and vanity, and he ends with a prayer that God will act to remove the "Serpent" (the pursuit, in writing, of the poet's own "Fame" or (self) "Interest" - even if this requires the destruction of Marvell's own ingenious verse - "my curious frame"). | | | You may find that a question obliges you to consider the work of each poet, or of all poets in relation to some theme or subject. | | | You should first state what the characteristics of metaphysical poetry are, then illustrate them by consideration of appropriate evidence from the poems. |
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| | Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne - Poetry |
| | The group of English writers who have come to be known as the metaphysical poets published work throughout the 17th century. | | | By this definition, Sir Walter Ralegh, Ben Johnson, and even William Shakespeare were metaphysical poets in the context of particular poems. | | | But perhaps it would be more accurate to talk about the metaphysical poets in terms of characteristically metaphysical poems. |
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| | OUP: Robert Ellrodt on Seven Metaphysical Poets |
| | Since 1960 brilliant books have been written on the Metaphysical poets from various angles and they are duly taken into consideration. | | | Further research would be welcome in these fields of inquiry, but I hope the reader will be at least convinced that the particular and original characteristics evidenced in the poems and the prose works of each Metaphysical poet proceed from their diverse personal reactions to a collective historical phenomenon. | | | The original title of my book was The Unchanging Self, the "Metaphysical poets" were only mentioned in a subtitle. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/academic/humanities/literature/viewpoint/robert_ellrodt
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| | R. Siemens: English 361 (01): The Metaphysical Poets |
| | The Metaphysical Poets (a discussion of Gardner's "Introduction,"15-29). | | | Seminar: Metaphysicals and Cavaliers (a discussion of Sanders). | | | Week 13 (Apr. 3): Milton, I. Seminars: [15a/b] Milton as Metaphysical; [16a/b] The Subject of Paradise Lost and its Treatment. |
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| | OUP: Seven Metaphysical Poets: Ellrodt |
| | It is an erudite and inclusive treatment of seven poets to illustrate the theme of the study... | | | There is a wealth of information and insight about the Metaphysical poets and their literary and philosophical background along with numerous interpretive insights on specific poems. | | | 'Seven Metaphysical Poets stands out among the crowd of new books on the seventeenth century for its affirmation of the humane, personal qualities of literature... |
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| | Metaphysical - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Metaphysical poets, a poetic school from seventeenth century England who correspond with baroque period in European literature. | | | Metaphysics, a branch of philosophy dealing with the ultimate nature of reality; or | | | Pittura Metafisica, a style of painting invented by Giorgio De Chirico. |
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| | John Donne and Metaphysical Conceits |
| | The teacher may share that metaphysical poetry is the name given by Dr. Samuel Johnson who wished to describe similar techniques used by a number of poets in the seventeenth century. | | | He and John Donne, and Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace are considered the more important metaphysical poets. | | | Annotation: This Donne page offers much information about the history and characteristics of the metaphysical poets. |
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| | The Sentiments and Accomplishments of the Metaphysical Poets |
| | Their poems are known for metaphysical arrogance; a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images, an intellectual wit, learned imagery and subtle argument. | | | From the great expressionists and the literary accomplishments of 16th century English Literature a new breed of poets were born. | | | The Sentiments and Accomplishments of the Metaphysical Poets |
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| | SPM0130 - TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH POETRY: THE METAPHYSICAL POETS |
| | Students will develop a good grasp of the poetic techniques and teh thematic content of the poets in question and in particular they will appreciate how these are informed by modern metaphysical notions (e.g. | | | An in-depth study of three major poets with regard to their themes and poetic practice. | | | metaphysical issues that inform their work (the ideas of Bergson, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset on time, being, perspectivism and |
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| | Donne’s Conceits, and the Metaphysical Poets |
| | This "yoking together" of images produces what are known as "conceits." Broadly speaking, conceits are comparisons — what distinguishes the metaphysical poets is a preference for comparisons between things which are as different as possible and (in T. Eliot's words) "the elaboration. | | | The union suggested here is perhaps more "metaphysical" than physical. | | | In A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, John Dryden condemned Donne because "he affects the metaphysics. |
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| | The Metaphysical Poets - Helen Gardner - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | Helen Gardner’s acclaimed edition contains an introduction placing works in their historical context, biographical notes for each poet and indexes of first lines and authors. | | | And Andrew Marvell encompassed love poetry like ‘To His Coy Mistress’, philosophical dialogues, public odes and pastoral verse. | | | The Metaphysical Poets - Introduced and Edited by Helen Gardner |
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| | Famous Poets Metaphysical Poetry : Famous Art Science Quotes Poster T-Shirt Gift Shop : CafePress.com |
| | 'No one was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. | | | All proceeds from this shop are used to promote philosophy (wisdom from truth) on the internet. | | | A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.' Gottfried Leibniz: Philosophy Metaphysics of Monads / Monadology |
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| | Poets / Poems / Metaphysical Poetry |
| | We think this knowledge is important, hope that you find it interesting and will enjoy pondering upon (and discussing!) this new perspective for understanding physical reality. | | | Physics Philosophy Metaphysics of Space (WSM) Forum Index -> Poets / Poems / Metaphysical Poetry | | | Metaphysics of Benedict de Spinoza: One Infinite Eternal Substance (God, Nature, Space) |
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| | Metaphysical Poets (in 17th C. English Literature) |
| | they share common characteristics of wit, inventiveness, and a love of elaborate stylistic manoeuvres." Each poet is covered in sections dealing with the following aspects: quotes, life, timeline, works, essays, books, and related information resource links. | | | Metaphysical poets: "a term used to group together certain 17th-century poets, usually Donne, Marvell, Vaughan, and Traherne, though other figures like Abraham Cowlet are sometimes included in the list. |
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| | metaphysical poets |
| | Group of early 17th-century English poets whose work is characterized by ingenious, highly intricate wordplay and unlikely or paradoxical imagery. | | | English poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell write comic, erotic, and serious poetry in this genre, while English poet George Herbert concentrated on religious themes. | | | As originally used, the term ‘metaphysical’ implied a criticism of these poets; Samuel Johnson, for example, complained that their poetry was laden with too much far-fetched learning. |
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| | Metaphysical Poets |
| | Against the iconoclasm of the Puritans, Herbert praises the stained glass windows, the vestments, and the perfumes that lead the poet to appreciate the bruised and broken body that gives him poetic lines and eternal life. | | | Though Herbert's work is often compared to Donne's, the strongest influence on Herbert's poetry is the Bible, which Herbert calls the book of "infinite sweetnesse" in "The H. Scriptures. | | | Herbert's commitment to his art develops as his apprehension of the fullness of the Incarnation advances. |
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| | Teaching in the School of Donne |
| | At its center is a reproduction of the title and final stanza of "The Canonization": | | | And the metaphysical poets are excellent subjects for projects in library research, to which the students have been introduced through their etymological investigations. | | | I introduce these applications of the metaphysical poets to English composition with a one-page handout. |
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| | Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry |
| | make a few intelligent comments about the poem, including what characterizes it as a Cavalier or Metaphysical poem and what formal elements the poet uses: rhyme, rhythm, imagery, figures of speech, allusions, etc. | | | 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). | | | 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. |
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| | Metaphysical Poets - Poetry Quiz |
| | * Henry Vaughan experienced a spiritual awakening inspired by the poems of what metaphysical poet? | | | Questions about the great metaphysical poets and their verses, with emphasis on Donne and Herbert. | | | He was private secretary to a high court official, Sir Thomas Egerton. |
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| | William Howard Taft, The Metaphysical Poets, and Tunnel Kids |
| | William Howard Taft, The Metaphysical Poets, and Tunnel Kids | | | Ohio University Press plans to put out eight volumes of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, a project whose bulk may only be matched by that of its progenitor. |
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| | Resource Link: The Metaphysical Poets [English Online] |
| | English Online > Classroom > English Resources > The Metaphysical Poets | | | A study guide written for students taking GCE Advanced level English literature in the UK which includes the study of poems by John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell. |
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| | Rel. 858b |
| | How do you find books about the "metaphysical poets" in general? | | | "Metaphysical poets" is not an official subject heading and is not the best term to use when doing research. | | | Ways to identify reference/background/general books in a particular subject area: |
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| | Grierson, Herbert J.C., ed. 1921. Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th c. |
| | “Metaphysical poetry, in the full sense of the term,” as Grierson writes, “is a poetry which has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the rôle assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.” | | | Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century | | | Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th c. |
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| | Oxford University Press: Seven Metaphysical Poets: Robert Ellrodt |
| | Oxford University Press: Seven Metaphysical Poets: Robert Ellrodt | | | We value your opinion and feedback about our website. |
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