Metaphysical_Poetry

Metaphysical Poetry Metaphysical Poetry The metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century particularly admired the methodology of science, & in fact they copied it, & their phrasing is often technical, spare, and polysyllabic, though they are not repeating actual science but making those metaphysicals substitutions that are so arresting. —John Crowe Ransom Sir, Herbert Grierson defines the term as “a poetry which like that of the Divina Commedia, the De Natwa Rereem, perhaps Goethe’s Faust, has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe & the role assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existense.” They formed a school in the sense of employing similar poetic strategies & of being motivated by a spirit of revolt against the conventional poetry of the Elizabethans, particularly the Spencerians. John Donne was the leader and the most influential member of the group. The group also included Richard Crashaw, George Herbert, & Henry Vaughan, who wrote mainly religious subjects; & John Cleveland, Abraharm Cowley, & Andrew Marvell, who wrote mainly on religious topics. Metaphysical poetry is concerned with the whole experience of man, but the intelligence, learning and seriousness of the poets means that the poetry is about the profound areas metaphysical, poets, poetry, wit, poems, love, poet, donne, beauty, one, herbert, crashaw, about, vaughan, metaphysicals, body, wrote, world, two, style, spirit, sense, often, much, man, conceits, century, ts, subtlety, soul, religious, nature, mystic, made