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The Metaphysical Poets (1957)

by Helen Gardner

Other authors: William Alabaster (Contributor), Edward Herbert, Baron Herbert of Cherbury (Contributor), Thomas Carew (Contributor), William Cartwright (Contributor), John Cleveland (Contributor)33 more, Abraham Cowley (Contributor), Richard Crashaw (Contributor), Sir William Davenant (Contributor), John Donne (Contributor), John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Contributor), Sir Richard Fanshawe (Contributor), Owen Felltham (Contributor), Lord Brooke Fulke Greville (Contributor), Sidney Godolphin (Contributor), William Habington (Contributor), John Hall (Contributor), George Herbert (Contributor), Thomas Heyrick (Contributor), Ben Jonson (Contributor), Henry King (Contributor), Sir Francis Kynaston (Contributor), Richard Leigh (Contributor), Richard Lovelace (Contributor), Andrew Marvell (Contributor), John Milton (Contributor), John Norris (Contributor), Francis Quarles (Contributor), Sir Walter Ralegh (Contributor), Thomas Randolph (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Robert Southwell (Contributor), Thomas Stanley (Contributor), Sir John Suckling (Contributor), Aurelian Townshend (Contributor), Thomas Traherne (Contributor), Henry Vaughan (Contributor), Edmund Waller (Contributor), Sir Henry Wotten (Contributor)

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John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Southwell, John Donne, Richard Crashaw form part of the 17th century poets who became known as metaphysical. In this anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those poets who although never self consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion.… (more)
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Gardner, Helenprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Alabaster, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert,Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Carew, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cartwright, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cleveland, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cowley, AbrahamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Crashaw, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Davenant, Sir WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Donne, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot,Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fanshawe, Sir RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Felltham, OwenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fulke Greville, Lord BrookeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Godolphin, SidneyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Habington, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hall, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Herbert, GeorgeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Heyrick, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jonson, BenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
King, HenryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kynaston, Sir FrancisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Leigh, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lovelace, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Marvell, AndrewContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Milton, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Norris, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Quarles, FrancisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ralegh, Sir WalterContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Randolph, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Shakespeare, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Southwell, RobertContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stanley, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Suckling, Sir JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Townshend, AurelianContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Traherne, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Vaughan, HenryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Waller, EdmundContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Southwell, John Donne, Richard Crashaw form part of the 17th century poets who became known as metaphysical. In this anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those poets who although never self consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion.

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