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16 matches to Metaphysical Poets
Metaphysical Poets. 17C. Witty English intellectual lyric poets. Donne.
Five Dynasties. 907-60. China between T’ang and Sung dynasties. Upheaval stimulated arts. Art to represent metaphysical truth.
Metaphysical Painting. 1911-20. Bizarre surreal imagery in stark landscape. De Chirico.
Whitehead, Alfred. 1861-1947. English mathematician/philosopher. Metaphysical theory of reality. With Russell wrote Principia Mathematica 1913. Process and Reality 1929.
Cavalier Poets. 17C Royalists. Lovelace. Herrick.
Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.
Connecticut Wits. 18C US satiric collaborative poets. Anarchiad 1786-87.
Della-Cruscans. 18C. English poets of sentimental Italian verse.
Grands Rhétoriqueurs. 15-16C. French poets. Deschamps, DeMachaut.
Imagists. 1912-. Poets eschew sentimentality for precision and imagery. Pound. Lawrence. Lowell.
Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.
Pleiad. c280BC Alexandrian tragic poets.
Pléiade, La. 16C. French Renaissance poets, aimed to enrich French language. Ronsard, Bellay, Belleau, Jodelle, Dorat, Baïf, Tyard.
Troubadours. 11-13C. Wandering lyric poets of south France and Italy.
Trouvères. 11-13C. Lyric poets of north France. Imitated troubadours.
Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.