Most of us today are familiar with poetry - in some form or another; but only few are familiar with an important group of poets in the seventeenth century that would later be dubbed the ‘Metaphysical poets’. As these men were not ghosts, what exactly was meant by the label ‘metaphysical’? And what did they all have in common? This video aims to explore the answers to both these questions - by analysing several samples of metaphysical verse.
[Important Note: I say during the video that it was Samuel Beckett who wrote of a ‘race of writers who may be termed the metaphysical poets’. Alas - I misread my own script and credited the wrong Samuel; it was Samuel Johnson who said this. This remark can be found in his ‘Lives of The Most Eminent English Poets’, which I have linked below]
The Bible
www.amazon.co.uk/Bible-Author...
Politics and the English Language (Orwell)
www.amazon.co.uk/Politics-Eng...
Poems (Donne)
www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Poe...
Poems (Cartwright)
www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Poems-W...
Poems (Vaughan)
www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Poe...
Poems (Crashaw)
www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Poe...
Poems (Herbert)
www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Poe...
The Metaphysical Poets (Garnder)
www.amazon.co.uk/Metaphysical...
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (Johnson)
www.amazon.co.uk/Lives-Most-E...
Selected Writings (Poe)
www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Wri...
Selected Letters (Dickinson)
www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Dick...
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EDITING ERRATA: Picture of Shakespeare instead of Henry Vaughan, at 1:42.
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