Metaphysical poetry swept through the world on the heels of the Renaissance. In an England where religious turmoil meant a person was not sure whether to be Catholic or Protestant in any given year, this type of poetry concerned itself with the whole experience of man. But the intelligence, learnin...

Metaphysical Poetry is the classification of poetry that has attached to it a long and peculiar history; metaphysical poetry encompasses the whole human experience but is imparted with such intelligence or wit, seriousness and passion on the reflective topics of experience, particularly about love, ...

John Donne's importance as a poet is founded upon his contribution to what is known as 'metaphysical' poetry. Metaphysical poetry was originally a style of poetry to describe the poet John Donne's work, but then it later extended school of 17th Century poets such as Andrew Marve...

T.S. Eliot was an extremely private individual, leaving little behindfor biographers. During his lifetime, Eliot earned a respected place inthe literary world and his poetry is considered to be some of the mostinfluential of the twentieth century. Born Thomas Stearns Eliot on Septembe...