Examine any one poem by Donne or Herbert or Marvel as an example of metaphysical poetry
Spiritual poetry The term “metaphor,” for seventeenth-century English and continental European poets, was employed by Augustan poets Dryden and Johnson to repeal those poets for their “unnaturalness”. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “unnatural, that too is natural,” and thus metaphorical poets must still be studied for their depth and originality. Together with similar but …
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