From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt Against Metaphysical Poetry

Abraham Cowley admiration Annus Mirabilis Bacon beauty became Benlowes Bishop Sprat Carew clarity Cleveland conceits contemporary couplet Cowley Cowley's Critical Essays Davenant Davenant's diction Donne Donne's poetry doth Drayton Drummond Dryden elegy Elizabethan emotion English poetry expression extravagance fancy fashion genius Gondibert harmony harshness Henry Vaughan Hobbes Hobbes's Ibid ical idiom imagery imagination imitated indicated influence instance Jacobean John John Donne John Dryden Jonson judgment language later learning literary London Lord Herbert Lyrics ment metaphors metaphys metaphysical esthetic metaphysical poetry metaphysical style metaphysical wit Michael Drayton mind nature neoclassical neoclassicism numbers obscurity odes Ovid passage Petrarch phrases Pindaric plain Poems poet's poetic poets Pope praised preface propriety prose qualities Quoted reader reason revolt rhetoric Richard Crashaw satire sense seventeenth century shows smooth sonnet soul Spenser Spenserians standards stanza taste things thou thought tion tradition truth verse Virgil Waller words write wrote