The Age of the Metaphysicals

1817 LIBRARIES Abraham Cowley Andrew Marvell Aurelian Townshend baroque believes Ben Jonson Bible Cambridge career CHIGAN Christian Church of England Civil classical conceit contemporaries Court Crashaw critics death describes doctrine Donne's Dryden earth Elegie Elizabethan English poetry eternity example faith father feeling fellow poets Francis Quarles friends George Herbert H. J. C. Grierson heaven Henry King Henry Vaughan human ibid ideas imagery images John Donne kind Latin learning literary lives London look lovers Marvell's medieval meta metaphysical poets MICHIGAN mind modern National Portrait Gallery natural notion Oxford paradoxes pattern Penguin perhaps physical poets pleasure poem poetic prose Puritan readers religious rhyme rhythm Richard Crashaw Roman Catholic Royalist satires says seems sense serious seventeenth century Sir Dudley sixteenth Song sonnets soul stanza subject-matter T. S. Eliot taste theme things Thomas Carew thou thought universe verse world-picture writing wrote