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| The new philosophy calls all in doubt, / The element of fire is quite put out. |
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| Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century |
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| Donne to Butler |
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| Selected and Edited with an Essay by Sir Herbert J.C. Grierson |
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| “Metaphysical poetry, in the full sense of the term,” as Grierson writes, “is a poetry which has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the rôle assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.” |
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| CONTENTS |
| Bibliographic Record Introduction |
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1921
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999 |
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Notes: Love Poems, Divine Poems, Miscellanies
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