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The Metaphysical Poets
Further Reading
Metaphysical Poetry ed. Colin Burrow (London: Penguin, 2006)
John Carey, John Donne: Life, Mind and Art rev. edn (London: Faber, 1990)
Stevie Davies, John Donne Writers and Their Work series (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994)
T. S. Eliot, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ and ‘Andrew Marvell’, both contained in Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot ed. Frank Kermode (London: Faber, 1975)
Achsah Guibbory, ‘John Donne’ in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry from Donne to Marvell ed. Thomas N. Corns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 123-47
Andrew Hadfield, ‘Donne’s Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity’, in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 206-16
Thomas Healy, ‘ “Dark all without it knits”: Vision and Authority in Marvell’s Upon Appleton House’ in Literature and the English Civil War ed. Thomas Healey and Jonathan Sawday (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 170-88
Thomas Healy, ‘Marvell and Pastoral’ in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 302-14
Thomas Healy (Ed), Longman Critical Reader: Andrew Marvell, (1998)
Annabel Patterson, Andrew Marvell Writers and Their Work series (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994)
Paul Salzman, Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), esp. Chapter 7: ‘Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn’, pp. 176-99
Michael Schoenfeldt, ‘George Herbert, God, and King’, in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 264-77
Michael Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, (1991)
Helen Wilcox, ‘George Herbert’ in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry from Donne to Marvell ed. Thomas N. Corns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 183-99
Chana Bloch, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible, (1985)
Barbara Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric, (1979)
