Metaphysical Age

We have seen the history of English poetry rewritten by critics convinced of Donne's cardinal importance. This change was partly ...

My love is of a birth as rare As ’tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanim...

The Poetry of John Donne: All the students of the English metaphysical poets would agree that Donne is the central figure in t...

Poetry and mysticism have, to begin with, this in common, that both alike belong to the field of contemplation rather than of actio...

The larger number of Marvell's modern admirers, I believe, have come to his poems with the assumption that the relatively short, s...