Download or read book Six Metaphysical Poets written by George Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This guide focuses primarily on the sometimes difficult or obscure poetry of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell, but it also deals with some of the lesser poets who can legitimately be included under the heading of metaphysical poets. Because this poetry is rich in philosophical ideas and metaphors, George Williamson helps the reader to understand the line-by-line meaning of particular poems before being bid to set out on a path to higher comprehension." "In addition, Williamson sketches the historical, intellectual, and rhetorical backgrounds of these poets, and the development of their literary reputations through the years. The nature of each poet is defined in his own terms before the individual poems are examined. Dimensions of wit are also scrutinized in the works of Henry King, John Cleveland, and John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, and Andrew Marvell's work is related to Restoration satire. The final chapter extends and refines our awareness of this mode of poetry and its ultimte course."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by David Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysical Poets provides an introduction to the work of six strikingly various and original poets- Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell and Traherne. By closely examining how the poems work, the book aims to help readers at all stages of proficiency and knowledge to enjoy and critically appreciate the ways in which fantastic and elaborate styles may express private intensities. The emphasis is on the differences covered by the term 'Metaphysical' and on the rich and strange diversity of the poets' inner lives. The book examines the expressive forms of interiority, the characteristic inward turn of Metaphysical wit, and compares the wit of its six poets with the non-introspective wit of poets such as Cowley, the Cavaliers and the Augustans. The discussion of each poet is preceded by a 'Life' in which the biographical facts, personal, cultural and political, are treated with a view to illuminating the concerns of the poems.
Download or read book Six metaphysical poets a reader s guide A reader s guide to the metaphysical poets John Donne George Herbert Richard Crashaw Abraham Cowley Henry Vaughan Andrew Marvell written by George WILLIAMSON (Professor at the University of Chicago.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysical Poetry written by Paul Negri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes such masterpieces as Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud"; Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"; plus works by George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, and others. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Download or read book Eight Metaphysical Poets written by Jack Dalglish and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1961 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems. This book contains poems by Donne, Herbert, Carew, Crashaw, Vaughan, King, Marvell and Cowley.
Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by David Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysical Poets provides an introduction to the work of six strikingly various and original poets- Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell and Traherne. By closely examining how the poems work, the book aims to help readers at all stages of proficiency and knowledge to enjoy and critically appreciate the ways in which fantastic and elaborate styles may express private intensities. The emphasis is on the differences covered by the term 'Metaphysical' and on the rich and strange diversity of the poets' inner lives. The book examines the expressive forms of interiority, the characteristic inward turn of Metaphysical wit, and compares the wit of its six poets with the non-introspective wit of poets such as Cowley, the Cavaliers and the Augustans. The discussion of each poet is preceded by a 'Life' in which the biographical facts, personal, cultural and political, are treated with a view to illuminating the concerns of the poems.
Download or read book A Selection of Metaphysical Poets written by Virginia Graham and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in this A Level poetry series contain a glossary and notes on each page. The approach encourages students to develop their responses to the poems, and an A Level Chief Examiner offers exam tips. This text contains a selection of works by metaphysical poets, including Donne and Marvell.
Download or read book Five Metaphysical Poets written by Joan Bennett and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by Helen Gardner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Six Metaphysical Poets written by Franz-Karl Wohrer and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other introductions to the poetry of the six major representatives of English Metaphysical Poetry - John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Thomas Traherne - this study not only provides a concise introduction to the lyrical poetry from a literary perspective, but it also places the religious poems in the appropriate context of Christian spirituality (bridal mysticism, affective devotion, negative theology), as well as of current philosophical conceptions of man and creation. (Series: Anglistik/ Amerikanistik - Vol. 23)
Download or read book American and British Poetry written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by John Donne and published by Naxos Audiobooks. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Reader s Guide to the Metaphysical Poets written by George Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by Donald Mackenzie and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysical Poetry written by Colin Burrow and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics. Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This compelling collection of the best and most enjoyable poems from the era includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally fascinating poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Widely varied in theme, all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors, imagery and language to express the uncertainty of an age, and a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets and in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T. S. Eliot. In his introduction, Colin Burrow explores the nature of Metaphysical poetry, its development across the seventeenth century and its influence on later poets and includes A Very Short History of Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Rochester. This edition also includes detailed notes, a chronology and further reading. Colin Burrow is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has edited Shakespeare's Sonnets for OUP and The Complete Works of Ben Jonson, and is working on the Elizabethan volume of the Oxford English Literary History. If you enjoyed Metaphysical Poetry, you might like John Donne's Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.
Download or read book Metaphysical Lyrics Poems of the Seventeenth Century Donne to Butler written by Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysical Lyrics Poems of the Seventeenth Century Donne to Butler written by Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
