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Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by Helen Gardner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Southwell, John Donne, Richard Crashaw form part of the 17th century poets who became known as metaphysical. In this anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those poets who although never self consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion.