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The Metaphysical Poets (3rd Edition) (Penguin Classics)
The Metaphysical Poets - 3rd Edition - Penguin Classics Author:Helen Gardner (Editor) In this third edition to her important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as "metaphysical." Characterized by a ... more »pungent concentration of thought and a sinewy strength of style, these poems are among the most challenging and beautiful in the English language. Includes poems by Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, John Milton, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan,« less