Book description
The inventiveness, imagery, virtuosity and the sheer sensuality of the Metaphysical Poets speaks to the modern reader in a way that the more formal verse of the Restoration and Augustan ages cannot.
This wide-ranging anthology of metaphysical poetry includes the finest works of John Donne, George Herbert and their contemporaries, as wel as earlier poems which point the way to the ingenious metaphors that fuse passion with reason, and which unify thought and feeling. The adventurous variation of rhyme and metre of metaphysical verse has made it the best-loved school of poetry in the English poetry.
