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In this volume, Dr Frances Austin examines the language of the five best-known metaphysical poets, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Traherne. She shows how the characteristics of their vocabulary, figurative language, syntactical structures and versification reflect their individual attitudes to their shared Christian faith, which is the subject matter of most of their poetry. The diversity of language, albeit having a common basis, is demonstrated in the course of this study.
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Book Title: The Language of the Metaphysical Poets
Authors: Frances Austin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21963-6
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 195
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature