The Metaphysical Poets

In reference to the beginning of the seventeenth century, Samuel Johnson wrote that there “appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.” Widely regarded in the years since as a distinct poetical movement, it is interesting to note that the Metaphysical poets did not, in the main, read or know one another.

Samuel Johnson was not an admirer of the group as he decried their distinct lack of the decorum of the day, but the poems featured in this collection are wonderful, inspiring, and thought-provoking from our modern perspective.