| The new philosophy calls all in doubt, / The element of fire is quite put out. |
| John Donne |
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century
Donne to Butler
Selected and Edited with an Essay by Sir Herbert J.C. Grierson
“Metaphysical poetry, in the full sense of the term,” as Grierson writes, “is a poetry which has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the rôle assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.”
Contents
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1921
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999
- Contents: Love
Poems, Divine Poems, Miscellanies - Index of Authors
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
Notes: Love Poems, Divine Poems, Miscellanies