From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt Against Metaphysical Poetry

admiration appear attempt beauty became called clear Cleveland common conceits concerned considered couplet Cowley Cowley's criticism death developed Donne Donne's Dryden early effect elegy Elizabethan English English Studies equally Essays evidence example expression extravagance fact fancy fashion feeling figures followed force genius give harshness Hobbes Ibid imagination imitated important indicated influence instance interest John Jonson judgment kind language later learning less light lines literary London manner marked matter means metaphors metaphysical metaphysical poetry mind nature neoclassical never obscurity passage period phrases plain Poems poetic poetry poets praised preface prose qualities Quoted reader reason reference respect rhetoric rules seems sense seventeenth century shows significant smooth soul sound Spenser standards stanza style taste things thought tion tradition true truth turn verse Waller whole write wrote