This compelling collection of the best and most enjoyable poems from the era 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 fascinating poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. [11] These included Cleveland and his imitators as well as such transitional figures as Cowley and Marvell. Hinzufügen war nicht erfolgreich. April 2017. Dieser Artikel kann nicht per 1-Click® bestellt werden. Marvell doesn’t state the reasons why he and his love cannot consummate their love, but he uses the clever image of two parallel lines to embody the idea that, although perfect for each other, he and his love cannot be one. Bevor ich diesen Band kaufte, war mir von den "metaphysical poets" eigentlich nur John Donne bekannt. Widely varied in theme, all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors, imagery and language to express the uncertainty of an age, and a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets and in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T. S. Eliot. Sie hören eine Hörprobe des Audible Hörbuch-Downloads. with elegies of the author’s death (1633),[17] and were reprinted in subsequent editions over the course of the next two centuries. [25] Wordplay on this scale was not confined to Metaphysical poets, moreover, but can be found in the multiple meanings of ‘will’ that occur in Shakespeare's “Sonnet 135”. Although it may not strike us as particularly conversational now (you’re unlikely to find such metrical jiggery-pokery as ‘stampèd’ in a contemporary poem, let alone overhear someone talking like that on the Tube), Donne’s speech here – as evinced by phrases like ‘For God’s sake’ and ‘what you will’ – is daringly down-to-earth for a poem written four hundred years ago. Entdecken Sie jetzt alle Amazon Prime-Vorteile. Deists against Anglicanism And this, alas, is more than we would do. In Milton's case, there is an understandable difference in the way he matched his style to his subjects. Though the poems were often cast in a suitably Metaphysical style, half were written by fellow clergymen, few of whom are remembered for their poetry. Among them were Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his brother George, whose mother Magdalen was another recipient of verse letters by Donne. [26] and of ‘sense’ in John Davies’ “That the Soul is more than a Perfection or Reflection of the Sense”. [22] Southwell counts as a notable pioneer of the style, in part because his formative years were spent outside England. This does not necessarily imply that he intended "metaphysical"" to be used in its true sense, in that he was probably referring to a witticism of John Dryden, who said of John Donne: He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. It is typified by astronomical imagery, paradox, Baroque hyperbole, play with learned vocabulary (“an universal metampsychosis”), and irregular versification which includes frequent enjambment. They also served as courtiers, as did another contributor, Endymion Porter. The way George Herbert and other English poets “torture one poor word ten thousand ways”, in Dryden's phrase, finds its counterpart in a poem like “Constantijn Huygens’ Sondagh (Sunday) with its verbal variations on the word ‘sun’. [10] Instead, copies were circulated in manuscript among them. [30] Black hair and eyes are the subject in the English examples, while generally it is the colour of the skin with which Romance poets deal in much the same paradoxical style. Examples include Edward Herbert's “La Gialletta Gallante or The sun-burn'd exotic Beauty” and Marino's “La Bella Schiave” (The Beautiful Slave). [34] Bringing greater depth and a more thoughtful quality to their poetry, such features distinguish the work of the Metaphysical poets from the more playful and decorative use of the Baroque style among their contemporaries. [6] But Colin Burrow's dissenting opinion, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, is that the term 'Metaphysical poets' still retains some value. Etwas ist schiefgegangen. Yet this enjoys before it woo, Among his juvenilia appear imitations of Cowley. Helen Gardner too had noted the dramatic quality of this poetry as a personal address of argument and persuasion, whether talking to a physical lover, to God, to Christ's mother Mary, or to a congregation of believers.[13]. Since the 1960s, therefore, it has been argued that gathering all of these under the heading of Baroque poets would be more helpfully inclusive. So, in his great seductive poem ‘The Flea’, John Donne (pictured right) uses the conceit of the flea biting first him and then his mistress as a justification for their going to bed together: they’ve already been intimately joined through the flea’s sharing of their blood: Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; [4], During the course of the 1920s, T.S. By 1961 A. Alvarez was commenting that "it may perhaps be a little late in the day to be writing about the Metaphysicals. Is this an example of ‘star-cross’d lovers’, as in Romeo and Juliet? Grierson noted in addition that the slightly older poet, Robert Southwell (who is included in Gardner's anthology as a precursor), had learned from the antithetical, conceited style of Italian poetry and knew Spanish as well. The conjunction of his learning and role as ambassador becomes the extended metaphor on which the poem's tribute turns. So, for instance, in his poem ‘The Definition of Love’, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) writes about the fact that he and his beloved are doomed never to be together, despite being made for each other: As lines, so loves oblique may well c.1600–c.1690)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. The term ‘metaphysical poets’ was popularised (though not invented) by Samuel Johnson (1709-84) in his critical biography of the seventeenth-century poet Abraham Cowley, in Johnson’s Lives of the Poets (1779-81). Abraham Cowley. Es wird kein Kindle Gerät benötigt.

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