Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The metaphysical poets, including works by John Donne, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert

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The metaphysical poets

including works by John Donne, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert

These poems are done by 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasures in a way that was radically new and challenging to their readers. Their work was largely misunderstood or ignored for two centuries, until 20th-century critics rediscovered it

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