Various (ed. Helen Gardner)

Various (ed. Helen Gardner)

c. 1600–1680 (anthology 1957) · Renaissance Early Modern · Poetry

The Metaphysical Poets is Helen Gardner's anthology of English poets of the seventeenth century who wrote in the style that Samuel Johnson, borrowing a phrase from Dryden, called 'metaphysical'. Johnson complained that in their verse the most heterogeneous ideas were yoked by violence together; T.