Donald Mackenzie

The metaphysical poets

Part 1 Survey: the seminal critics - Johnson, Coleridge, Eliot criticism since 1921. Part 2 Appraisal: style - preliminary definitions the pre-emptive founder - Carews Donne a school of Donne? Donne - the founder of a style groupings and generations Donne - a 1590s poet, Donness Ovid, the songs and sonnets, the religious poetry Herbert and the religious poets - the problems of sacred poetry, contexts for sacred poetry, Herbert and vocation, Herbert and the homely, the homely into the strange Vaughan - Vaughan and Herbert, Vaughan and the Interregnum, styles and responses Crawshaw Marvell.