When1: 1600
When2: 1700
Who: Metaphysical Poets
What: literary school
Where: England
Detail: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Carew, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw, Edward Herbert, Richard Lovelace, and John Suckling used colloquial and metaphorical verse in irregular meter. Samuel Johnson identified them in The Lives of the Poets [1744].
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