ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -These include John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Henry Cowley, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, and Bishop King, all of them poets, as well as the dramatists Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and Cyril Tourneur.

Detailed explanation-2: -In his essay “The Metaphysical Poets, ” T. S. Eliot, in particular, saw in this group of poets a capacity for “devouring all kinds of experience.” Donne (1572–1631) was the most influential Metaphysical poet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Metaphysical poets (act. c. 1600–c. 1690), is a label often attached to a loosely connected group of seventeenth-century poets, among whom the central figures are John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Crashaw.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eliot (1888-1965) is synonymous with modernism. Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning.