THE METAPHYSICAL POETS- T.S. ELIOT

• Published in the year 1921.
• Review of Herbert J.C. Grierson’ Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1912).
• criticism
• Concepts: Unification of Sensibility =thought+ feeling

Dissociation of Sensibility= either thought or feeling

Jules Laforgue, (1860-1887)

• French Symbolist poet
• lyrical irony 
•  vers libre (“free verse”).
• Influenced American poets like T.S. Eliot
• Important works: Les Complaintes (1885), (1886; “The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon”), and Le Concile féerique (1886; “The Fairy Council”)

• pseudonym of Édouard Joachim Corbière
• French poet
• realistic pictures of seafaring life
• Only published work: Les amours jaunes, 1873, 

For the child, lover of cards and prints,�the universe is equal to his vast appetite.�Ah! how big the world is to the clarity of the lamps!�In the eyes of the memory that the world is small!

-The Journey

Charles Baudelaire

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Arthur Symons ,the first English champion of the French Symbolist poets.

Racine and Baudelaire

• “greatest two masters of diction”
• “the most curious explorers of soul”
• Diction (Abrams): The term diction signifies the kinds of words, phrases, and sentence structures, and sometimes also figurative language , that constitute any work of literature.

•   Jean Racine (1639 – 1699)
• French dramatist , Molière and Corneille.
• Works: Andromaque (1668), 
• Britannicus (1670),
•  Bérénice (1671), 
• Bajazet (1672),
•  Phèdre (1677)

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• Charles Baudelaire (1821—1867)
• Full name Charles-Pierre Baudelaire,
• The Symbolist Movement with his literary work The Flowers of Evil, (1857)
• Works: Salon de 1845, Le spleen de Paris, published in 1969 and Le Peintre de la vie moderne.

FRENCH AUTHORS

ENGLISH POETS

• John Dryden(1631-1700)
• English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright.
• Age of Dryden
• Discourse Concerning Satire(1693)

• John Milton(1608 – 1674) was an English poet and intellectual.
• Paradise Lost(1667)

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Sir Philip Sidney (1554 –1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier .

• “look into our hearts and write”

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• Atrophel and Stella(1591): Sonnet 1(Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show)

“One must look into the cerebral cortex, the nervous system, and the digestive tracts”

“Direct current of English poetry”

• John Donne(1621–1631)  the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets.

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• Richard Crashaw(1613 –1649): English poet, religious verse of vibrant style & ardent faith.

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• Henry Vaughan(1621 –1695): metaphysical poet and physician.
• George Herbert (1593-1633) English religious & metaphysical poet, effective choice of words.

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• Lord Herbert(1583-1648), English courtier, diplomat, & metaphysical poet(“the father of English Deism”), Autobiography.
• Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), now considered to be one of the best Metaphysical poets.

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• Henry King, Bishop of Chichester,  remembered primarily for a single poem, The Exequy.

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• Abraham Cowley(1618-1667), poet and essayist. He adapted the Pindaric ode to English verse.

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Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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