The Development Of The Concept Of Love In Poetry From Petrarch To Donne
Introduction
"Metaphysical poetry is the poetry of the great age of our drama. Its master John Donne was, we are told, ‘a great frequenter of plays' in his youth. As an ambitious young man of social standing he would not have considered writing for the players, and his work is too personal, wilful, and idiosyncratic for us to imagine him doing so with any success. But his strong dramatic imagination of particular situations transforms the lyric and makes a metaphysical poem more than an epigram expanded by conceits." (Gardner 1985:23)
Personality and idiosyncrasy are a good starting point to describe the poems of John Donne. Also his love poetry which will be investigated a little bit closer in this work shows many personal elements.
But John Donne did not start a whole new poetry from the scratch, therefore this paper will give an overlook how and where the poetry developed and how it was picked up and changed to meet the requirements of the metaphysical poets.
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