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The Metaphysical Poets

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Metaphysical Era of Exploration and Cartography

The term metaphysical is sometimes used to suggest the high-minded or abstract. Tom Kane, as I understand it, cropped up with her out of these poets as a term of abuse. William Drummond complained about metaphysical ideas and scholastic quiddities of his fellow poets. So they got a bad press from the fellow poets in the first couple of hundred years.

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