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Metaphysical poetry / edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow. - London ; New York : Penguin, 2006. - lvii, 336 p. ; 20 cm. - Penguin classics . - Penguin classics. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sir Henry Wotton --
John Donne --
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury --
Aurelian Townshend --
Sir Francis Kynaston --
Sir Robert Ayton --
Henry King --
Francis Quarles --
George Herbert --
Christopher Harvey --
Thomas Carew --
Thomas Beedome --
Owen Felltham --
Thomas Randolph --
William Habington --
Sir Willliam Davenant --
Edmund Waller --
John Milton --
Sir John Suckling --
Sidney Godolphin --
William Cartwright --
Anne Bradstreet --
Richard Crashaw --
John Cleveland --
William Hammond --
Thomas Philipot --
Robert Heath --
Samuel Pick --
Abraham Cowley --
Richard Lovelace --
Andrew Marvell --
Henry Vaughan --
James Paulin --
Thomas Stanley --
'Eliza' --
John Hall --
Katherine Philips --
Thomas Traherne --
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester --
Richard Leigh --
Thomas Heyrick. TOC

Summary:
Includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne.



ISBN: 014042444X (pbk.) 9780140424447 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Metaphysics--Poetry.

LC Class. No.: PR1209.M48 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 821.3 / MET 2006