The Metaphysical Poets: Wit, faith, and the conceit

Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Vaughan — the seventeenth-century poets who yoked passion to argument and made the lyric think.

In this collection

• A Last Word
• Service Songs
• Thanksgiving
• The Glory of Ruins
• To Caroline III
• Answer to a Beautiful Poem, Entitled 'the Common Lot"
• There's Rosemary
• Trees
• Spleen
• On Recollection
• The Return of Song
• I' MI Vivea DI Mia Sorte Contento
• Petals
• For Music
• The Naulahka
• Wilson and Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Food in Travel
• The Wind (the Tale)
• Vagabonds
• The Mistletoe
• Like a Bad Suitor
• The Fly-Away Horse
• Overseas
• Communism
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