It was considered as "metaphysical poetry" by one exam board.

A conceit is an extended metaphor typical of metaphysical poetry.

Nor was Johnson's assessment of 'metaphysical poetry' particularly flattering, since he wrote:

He taught himself English by translating metaphysical poetry word by word.

It could as easily be ten to the eighteen bytes of metaphysical poetry.'

Metaphysical poetry is chiefly concerned with analyzing feeling.

She wrote a great deal of metaphysical poetry to express her religious views, and began to use Christianity to link culture and community together.

When does Elizabethan poetry end and Metaphysical poetry begin?

This is Metaphysical Poetry, not the Modern Novel.

She bears comparison with Henry Vaughan and 17th century metaphysical poetry, especially in her near-religious ecstasy.

Metaphysical Poetry- Highly intellectualized poetry written chiefly in 17th-century England.

"It's not metaphysical poetry, like Shakespeare," Mr. Greenspan said.

As metaphysical poetry goes, it possesses an appealing simplicity, and reminds us that the word has two parts, "meta" and "physical".

The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry.

Rejecting the dense intellectual verse of Metaphysical poetry, he adopted generalizing statement, easy associative development, and urbane social comment.

Metaphysical poetry is characterised by a spirit of intellectual investigation of the spiritual, rather than the mystical reverence of many earlier English poems.

Mr. Muldoon cited Dr. Johnson's description of metaphysical poetry as heterogeneous ideas yoked together by violence.

Docx mixes the art of calligraphy and the metaphysical poetry of John Donne in this stylishly clever debut novel.

It is named after John Donne's poem "The Flea", and publishes contemporary verse loosely in the metaphysical poetry tradition.

He formulated such critical concepts as "objective correlative", and rethought the literary canon in his elevation of Jacobean drama and metaphysical poetry.

Its focus instead is death, as it follows the dehumanizing treatment for ovarian cancer of a professor of metaphysical poetry, played in memory-searing style by Kathleen Chalfant.

Metaphysical poetry fell further into disrepute in the 18th century, while the interest in Renaissance verse was rekindled through the scholarship of Thomas Warton and others.

WIT," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a professor of 17th-century metaphysical poetry who is dying of ovarian cancer, is by no stretch a comedy.

Bulleh Shah is famous for his spiritual and metaphysical poetry, and "Bullah ki janaa" is one of his well-known poems.

"He became interested in writing through his association with the worker poet Milton Acorn in the early sixties and the metaphysical poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen."