Metaphysical poetry, a term generally applied to the works of a group of English poets of the seventeenth century, is among the most read and studied verse in English literature, having proved enduringly popular and major influence on many twentieth-century poets. Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone, intriguing and complex in theme and idea, metaphysical poetry is also rich in striking and unusual imagery chosen from philosophy, theology, the arts, crafts, and sciences. This modestly priced anthology contains the best work by major poets of the school: John Donne,... Read More
Metaphysical poetry, a term generally applied to the works of a group of English poets of the seventeenth century, is among the most read and studied verse in English literature, having proved enduringly popular and major influence on many twentieth-century poets. Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone, intriguing and complex in theme and idea, metaphysical poetry is also rich in striking and unusual imagery chosen from philosophy, theology, the arts, crafts, and sciences. This modestly priced anthology contains the best work by major poets of the school: John Donne,... Read More
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Metaphysical poetry, a term generally applied to the works of a group of English poets of the seventeenth century, is among the most read and studied verse in English literature, having proved enduringly popular and major influence on many twentieth-century poets. Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone, intriguing and complex in theme and idea, metaphysical poetry is also rich in striking and unusual imagery chosen from philosophy, theology, the arts, crafts, and sciences. This modestly priced anthology contains the best work by major poets of the school: John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, and Thomas Traherne, all of whose works were originally considered a reaction against traditional Elizabethan verse of the late sixteenth century. Included are such masterpieces as Donne’s “The Good Morrow” and "Death, Be Not Proud"; Marvell's “The Garden” and "To His Coy Mistress"; Herbert’s “Easter Wings”; Vaughan’s “The World,” and many more. Ideal for use in classrooms from high school through college, this outstanding anthology will appeal as well to lovers of fine English poetry.
John Donne The Good Morrow Song Woman's Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent The Canonization The Triple Fool Song The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day The Anniversary "A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window" Twickenham Garden A Valedicition: of Weeping The Flea The Curse "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day" Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart The Valedicition: Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy Love's Deity The Funeral The Blossom The Relic A Lecture upon the Shadow A Burnt Ship Fall of a Wall Elegy I: Jealousy Elegy II: The Anagram Elegy V: His Picture Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegy XVI: On His Mistress Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed Satire I Satire III To Mr. Rowland Woodward To the Countess of Bedford on New Year's Day Elegy on the Lady Markham La Corona 1 2 Annunciation 3 Nativity 4 Temple 5 Crucifying 6 Resurrection 7 Ascension Holy Sonnets I "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?" II As due by many titles I resign III O might those sighs and tears return again IV O my black soul! now thou art summoned V I am a little world made cunningly VI "This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint" VII "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow" VIII If faithful souls be alike glorified IX "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree," X "Death be not proud, though some have called thee" XI "Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side," XII Why are we by all creatures waited on? XIII What if this present were the world's last night? XIV "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you" XV "Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest," XVI "Father, part of his double interest" XVII Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt XVIII "Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear" XIX "Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Good Friday, Riding Westward A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany" "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" A Hymn to God the Father Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress The Definition of Love The Mower to the Glowworms The Mower Against Gardens Damon the Mower The Mower's Song The Unfortunate Lover The Gallery The Fair Singer Mourning Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun Daphnis and Chloe The Match Young Love The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers The Garden Bermudas A Dialogue Between the Resolvèd Soul and Created Pleasure A Dialogue Between The Soul and Body On a Drop of Dew Eyes and Tears The Coronet An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland Upon Appleton House George Herbert Jordan (1) Jordan (2) The British Church The Son The Altar The Church Floor Easter Wings Lent Sunday Church Music To All Angels and Saints Man Afflicition Frailty Nature The Pearl The Pulley Peace Conscience Discipline Redemption Love The Priesthood Aaron The Windows The Call The Odor The True Hymn Dullness The Collar The Flower Virtue Richard Crashaw "On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled The Temple of Sacred Poems, Sent to a Gentlewoman" A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa "Saint Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper" On the Baptized Ethiopian Give to Caesar...and to God...Mark XII But Men Loved Darkness Rather than Light...John III To Pontius Washing His Hands Samson to His Delilah "To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine" Upon the Infant Martyrs On the Miracle of Loaves Upon Lazarus His Tears "From Carmen Deo Nostro," A Song Wishes to His Supposed Mistress Music's Duel Henry Vaughan Idle Verse Mount of Olives (1) Mount of Olives (2) The Garland The Seed Growing Secretly Quickness The Bird The Waterfall Man The Night The Search Regeneration The Dwelling-Place The Retreat Childhood The Dawning The Mourning Watch The World Ascension Hymn They Are All Gone Into the World of Light Unprofitableness Peace Thomas Traherne Wonder Eden News The Apostasy Poverty Right Apprehension The Rapture Felicity Dreams Insatiableness The Review Index of Titles Index of First Lines
Metaphysical poetry, a term generally applied to the works of a group of English poets of the seventeenth century, is among the most read and studied verse in English literature, having proved enduringly popular and major influence on many twentieth-century poets. Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone, intriguing and complex in theme and idea, metaphysical poetry is also rich in striking and unusual imagery chosen from philosophy, theology, the arts, crafts, and sciences. This modestly priced anthology contains the best work by major poets of the school: John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, and Thomas Traherne, all of whose works were originally considered a reaction against traditional Elizabethan verse of the late sixteenth century. Included are such masterpieces as Donne’s “The Good Morrow” and "Death, Be Not Proud"; Marvell's “The Garden” and "To His Coy Mistress"; Herbert’s “Easter Wings”; Vaughan’s “The World,” and many more. Ideal for use in classrooms from high school through college, this outstanding anthology will appeal as well to lovers of fine English poetry.
John Donne The Good Morrow Song Woman's Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent The Canonization The Triple Fool Song The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day The Anniversary "A Valediction: of My Name, in the Window" Twickenham Garden A Valedicition: of Weeping The Flea The Curse "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day" Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart The Valedicition: Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy Love's Deity The Funeral The Blossom The Relic A Lecture upon the Shadow A Burnt Ship Fall of a Wall Elegy I: Jealousy Elegy II: The Anagram Elegy V: His Picture Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegy XVI: On His Mistress Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed Satire I Satire III To Mr. Rowland Woodward To the Countess of Bedford on New Year's Day Elegy on the Lady Markham La Corona 1 2 Annunciation 3 Nativity 4 Temple 5 Crucifying 6 Resurrection 7 Ascension Holy Sonnets I "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?" II As due by many titles I resign III O might those sighs and tears return again IV O my black soul! now thou art summoned V I am a little world made cunningly VI "This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint" VII "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow" VIII If faithful souls be alike glorified IX "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree," X "Death be not proud, though some have called thee" XI "Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side," XII Why are we by all creatures waited on? XIII What if this present were the world's last night? XIV "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you" XV "Wilt thou love God, as he thee? then digest," XVI "Father, part of his double interest" XVII Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt XVIII "Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear" XIX "Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Good Friday, Riding Westward A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany" "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" A Hymn to God the Father Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress The Definition of Love The Mower to the Glowworms The Mower Against Gardens Damon the Mower The Mower's Song The Unfortunate Lover The Gallery The Fair Singer Mourning Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun Daphnis and Chloe The Match Young Love The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers The Garden Bermudas A Dialogue Between the Resolvèd Soul and Created Pleasure A Dialogue Between The Soul and Body On a Drop of Dew Eyes and Tears The Coronet An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland Upon Appleton House George Herbert Jordan (1) Jordan (2) The British Church The Son The Altar The Church Floor Easter Wings Lent Sunday Church Music To All Angels and Saints Man Afflicition Frailty Nature The Pearl The Pulley Peace Conscience Discipline Redemption Love The Priesthood Aaron The Windows The Call The Odor The True Hymn Dullness The Collar The Flower Virtue Richard Crashaw "On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled The Temple of Sacred Poems, Sent to a Gentlewoman" A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa "Saint Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper" On the Baptized Ethiopian Give to Caesar...and to God...Mark XII But Men Loved Darkness Rather than Light...John III To Pontius Washing His Hands Samson to His Delilah "To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine" Upon the Infant Martyrs On the Miracle of Loaves Upon Lazarus His Tears "From Carmen Deo Nostro," A Song Wishes to His Supposed Mistress Music's Duel Henry Vaughan Idle Verse Mount of Olives (1) Mount of Olives (2) The Garland The Seed Growing Secretly Quickness The Bird The Waterfall Man The Night The Search Regeneration The Dwelling-Place The Retreat Childhood The Dawning The Mourning Watch The World Ascension Hymn They Are All Gone Into the World of Light Unprofitableness Peace Thomas Traherne Wonder Eden News The Apostasy Poverty Right Apprehension The Rapture Felicity Dreams Insatiableness The Review Index of Titles Index of First Lines
