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  • The '''metaphysical poets''' is a term applied to some English poets of the 17th century whose work i ...the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets".
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  • ...ish Renaissance literature]] and the group of writers referred to as the [[metaphysical poets]]. His most famous work is a collection of poems entitled ''[[The Temple]]' ...g with God in a way reminiscent of some of the biblical Psalms. Like other metaphysical poets, he makes considerable use of conceits and puns. One poem - ''Easter Wings'
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  • ...hort but intense period of creativity. He is commonly classed among the [[Metaphysical poets]]. ...y 20th century he benefited from the critical esteem newly afforded to the metaphysical poets, and he acquired a certain following.
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  • ...Zoas''). In the 20th century, Milton's poetry fell out of favour, as the [[Metaphysical poets]] came into fashion, though [[T.S. Eliot]] rather condescendingly noted tha
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  • ...lowed the lead given by Grierson, who included him in his account of the [[Metaphysical poets]] and [[T.S. Eliot]]<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref><ref>
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  • '''John Donne''' was a leading [[Metaphysical poets|metaphysical poet]] and preacher. He lived from about 1572 to 31 March 1631
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  • ...playwrights contemporary to [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], in the [[Metaphysical Poets]], and in the writings of the Elizabethan and Jacobean prelate [[Lancelot A
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  • ...flowing style which outlasted the more artificial accomplishments of the [[metaphysical poets]] and the later use of end-stopped heroic couplets. The means he used, the
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