The Metaphysical Poets

achieved Andrew Marvell Anglican appears Baroque biblical Catholic Cavalier poets Christ Christian Church classical conceit contemplation context contrast conventions Counter-Reformation Countess of Denbigh couplet Credenhill Cromwell death demonstrates devotional Divine Poems Donne's dramatic Elizabethan emblem emotional emphasis epigram Eternity example experience expression grace heart Henry Vaughan Hermeticism Horatian human Hymn idea imagery influence instance intellectual John Donne John Milton Jonson L.C. Martin language lines literary London lovers lyric Marvell Marvell's means meditation Metaphysical poets Metaphysical style Milton mystical nature Oxford paradoxes particular pastoral Poems of Richard poet's poetic prose provides Puritan Quoted in L.C. reader reflect remarkable Renaissance Richard Crashaw Roman Catholicism satire sense sensual seventeenth century Silex Scintillans soul spiritual stanza suggests symbolic T.S. Eliot Teresa thee theme theology things Thomas Thomas Traherne thou thought tion tone tradition Traherne Traherne's University Press various Vaughan verse vision witty writing