Metaphysical poets facts for kids
The metaphysical poets are a group of English poets known for long difficult metaphors. John Donne is perhaps the most famous. Although their work was not popular in some periods, thanks to writers like T. S. Eliot their value to English literature seems mostly recognised these days.
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The poet Abraham Cowley, in whose biography Samuel Johnson first named and described Metaphysical poetry
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The title page of Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans, 1650
See also
In Spanish: Poesía metafísica para niños
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