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Poetry portal; 17th century in literature; Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War (1641–1651) Elizabethan literature (1557–1603) Poetry; Restoration literature (1660–1689)
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1671–1696 – Madame de Sévigné writes her famous letters. Metaphysical poets - a term made by Samuel Johnson for a group of 17th century English poets. [2] German literature of the Baroque period
[4] In many ways, this poetry embodies an attitude that mirrors "carpe diem." Cavalier poets certainly wrote to promote Royalist principles in favor of the crown, but their themes ran deeper than that. Cavalier poets wrote in a way that promoted seizing the day and the opportunities presented to them and their kinsmen.
The statue was said by Izaac Walton in his biography, to have been modelled from the life by Donne to suggest his appearance at the resurrection. It started a vogue of such monuments during the 17th century. [21] In 2012, a bust of the poet by Nigel Boonham was unveiled outside in the cathedral churchyard. [22]
The poet Abraham Cowley, in whose biography Samuel Johnson first named and described Metaphysical poetry. 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.
This was an early, 20th-century, Anglo-American, modernist, poetry movement that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language, that marked the beginning of a revolution in the way poetry was written. English poets involved with this group included Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington, T. E. Hulme, F. S. Flint, Ford Madox ...
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