FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Edmund Spenser
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John Milton
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John Donne
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Detailed explanation-1: -Generally speaking, the first writer of metaphysical poetry is thought to have been English poet John Donne (1572-1631).
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Donne and His Contemporaries; FOUR METAPHYSICAL POETS. Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw.
Detailed explanation-4: -Donne (1572–1631) was the most influential Metaphysical poet. His personal relationship with spirituality is at the center of most of his work, and the psychological analysis and sexual realism of his work marked a dramatic departure from traditional, genteel verse.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.