Showing posts with label Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnson. Show all posts
apparently having Donne
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Cleveland and Cowley chiefly in mind
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Johnson
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remarks of them that the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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who employed the term 'metaphysical poets'
Johnson, who employed the term 'metaphysical poets', apparently having Donne, Cleveland and Cowley chiefly in mind, remarks of them that the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
These lines have been taken from Eliot's one of the major essays, "The Metaphysical Poets"(1921) where Eliot is trying to establish the metaphysical school of poetry is the continuation of main stream of literature, not 'a digression from the main current'. Dr. Samuel Johnson applied the term 'metaphysical' in his "The Life...
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