Of Metaphysics and the Metaphysicals

Description

A key anthology for scholars of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical poets, “Of Metaphysics and the Metaphysicals” is a collection of verses from the poets of variegated ages and nations. Spanning the seventeenth-century British Poetry to Kashmiri Sufi poetry and English Mystic Poetry, the book sought the most celebrated view, “an inquiry into what exists,” as a representative of metaphysics. This collection contains the most representative poetry from the eras – includes the most celebrated metaphysical poetry in English literature by John Donne-the chief of the metaphysicals, Henry Vaughan, Andrew marvel, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, etc.; Kashmiri Sufi poetry by Shiekh-ul Alam, Shams Fakir, Rahim Sahab, Soch Kral, Lalla Ded, etc.; and various other English Mystic poetry by William Blake, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, et al.