Showing posts with label Donne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donne. Show all posts
and often Cowley
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Donne
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employ a device which is sometimes considered characteristically metaphysical (35-39)
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The Metaphysical Poets
Donne and often Cowley, employ a device which is sometimes considered characteristically metaphysical; the elaboration of a figure of speech to the furthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it. (35-39)
This line has been taken from Eliot's one of the major essays "The Metaphysical Poets". Eliot actually writes this essay to answer to the objection raised by Johnson about the metaphysical poets. Dr. Samuel Johnson used the term 'metaphysical'in his " The Life of Cowley". He used the term 'metaphysical' as a pejorative one....
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