Write a short note on metaphysical poetry?
Write a note on Metaphysical Poetry? Metaphysical poetry began Carly in the Jacobean Age, i.e., in the last stage of the Age of Shakespeare. Donne was the leader and founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry. He led the new way of writing poetry as a reaction against the conventional poetry of the Spenserian. It was Dr. Johnson who christened Donne and his followers The Metaphysical pots." This title was borrowed by Dr. Johnson from Dryden's famous phrase "Donne affects the metaphysical not only in his satires but in his amorous verses. The title was given not by way of commendation, but in a derisive way because Dr. Johnson had no appreciation for the fantastic concise which these metaphysical poets displayed in their poetry. Dr. Johnson condemned this school of poets, because of the habit, common to the school of poets, of always specking to express something after something behind the simple obvious first sense of a subject. They were affected the ...