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The metaphysical poets

by Gardner, Helen, Various
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Overview

In this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'.

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Book Details

Published
February 28, 1960
Publisher
London : Penguin Books, 1985.
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780140420388

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