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Helen Gardner was a distinguished professor of English literature, renowned for her critical work on John Donne and T. S. Eliot. She was the first woman to hold the esteemed Merton Professorship of English Literature at Oxford. Her scholarship delved deeply into these literary masters, offering insightful analyses of their complex verse. Gardner brought a unique perspective to the academic world, and her contributions to literary criticism remain highly valued.

1966
The Metaphysical poets
336 pages
12 hours of reading
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In this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'. Contains amongst others: John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Southwell, John Donne and Richard Crashaw.

The Metaphysical poets