ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot’s influential essay “The Metaphysical Poets” (1921), a review of Herbert J.C. Grierson’s anthology Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century. In this essay Eliot argued that the works of these men embody a fusion of thought and feeling that later poets were unable to achieve because…

Detailed explanation-2: -Eliot, the metaphysical poets had the upper hand in writing at a time when thought and feeling went hand in hand and they were finely blended into their works of art. T.S. Eliot states that this union of thought and feeling disappeared when the ‘dissociation of sensibility’ set in about the age of John Dryden.

Detailed explanation-3: -In his 1921 essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’, T. S. Eliot made several of his most famous and important statements about poetry – including, by implication, his own poetry. It is in this essay that Eliot puts forward his well-known idea of the ‘dissociation of sensibility’, among other theories.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.