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The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised

nothing like the sun". The 17th-century and the sometimes so-called metaphysical poets extended the notion of the elaborate metaphor; their idea of conceit

of poets at this time were the Cavalier poets. The Cavalier poets wrote in a lighter, more elegant and artificial style than the Metaphysical poets. They

The spasmodic poets were a group of British poets of the Victorian era. The term was coined by William Edmonstoune Aytoun with some derogatory as well

The cavalier poets was a school of English poets of the 17th century, that came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil

simply as Song, is a poem by John Donne, one of the leading English metaphysical poets. Probably first passed round in manuscript during the final decade

the metaphysical poets of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century and the poets of the late seventeenth century onward. In "The Metaphysical Poets",

Retrieved 28 February 2020. Poets, Academy of American. "A Brief Guide to Metaphysical Poets | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 8 October

especially concerning his metaphysical form. Donne is generally considered the most prominent member of the metaphysical poets, a phrase coined in 1781

Metaphysical poets John Donne and George Herbert were still alive after 1625, and later in the 17th century a second generation of metaphysical poets