John Donne
George Herbert
Andrew Marvell
- metaphysical concerns are the common subject of their poetry
- they investigate the world by rational discussion of its phenomena
- Jonson, in "The Lives of the Poets", noted that metaphysical poets wrote about "a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult ressemblances in things apparently unlike", e.g. a comparison of love with astrology (Donne) and the soul with a drop of dew (Marvell)
- energetic, uneven, rigorous style
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