From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry

Robert Lathrop Sharp

From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Country
United States
Published
1 July 2018
Pages
240
ISBN
9781469644820

From Donne to Dryden: The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry

Robert Lathrop Sharp

The intense and concentrated revolution in poetic taste in seventeenth-century England is traced from Donne’s idiom–subtle, complex, and shot through with unconventional moods–to the idiom of Dryden, which follows the taste for clarity, harmony, and propriety. More than poetry is involved in this revolt. The cultural and intellectual forces of the century made a change in taste inevitable by altering man’s way of looking at himself and his world.

Originally published in 1940.

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