THE METAPHYSICAL POETS

Penguin Classics, 1972, softcover, 332 pages, some wear to to cover, otherwise condition: good.

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'.

Poets featured, amongst others: John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, John Donne and Richard Crashaw.