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metaphysical

1. relating to or concerned with metaphysics

2. (of a statement or theory) having the form of an empirical hypothesis, but in fact immune from empirical testing and therefore (in the view of the logical positivists) literally meaningless

Metaphysical

denoting or relating to certain 17th-century poets who combined intense feeling with ingenious thought and often used elaborate imagery and conceits. Notable among them were Donne, Herbert, and Marvell

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No references found			He used his poetic touchstones--Dante, the Metaphysicals, the Caroline poets and Baudelaire--to attack Shelley's vague imagery, rhetorical abstraction and muddled thought. Shelley and the waste land by Meyers, Jeffrey / Notes on Contemporary Literature Morgan read eclectically, nurturing early enthusiasms for canonical English writers, from the Gawain poet to Milton and the metaphysicals, and developing a passion for the 1936 edition of the Faber Book of Modern Verse that would cast a long shadow over his work for years to come. Zest and grit by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk All this Stubbs ignores, as he ignores the strengths and weaknesses of Samuel Johnson's remarks on the Metaphysicals in his essay on Cowley, and the brilliant marginalia of Coleridge (also ignored by Eliot, though not by Carey). Donne's "dialogue of one" by Dean, Paul / New Criterion			The Computer Glossary The Concrete The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844: From Personal The Cuckoo's Egg The Dalles The Dalles Dam the Deuce the Economist The Energy Loop: Huntington & Eccles Canyons Scenic Byway The Faeroes the Finite The Force The Galaxy the Graeae The Greenbelt The Hague the Hatchery The Hermitage State Historic Site the Hulk The Internet Account The Louvre the Mahdi The Marches The MathWorks, Inc. The Metadata Company the Metaphysicals The Microsoft Network The Minch The Mountain The Mountaineers The Mythical Man-Month The Netherlands The Network The Observer The Open Group The Pas the Pleiade the Pléiade The Press The Rail The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger! The Spanish Armada The story of Mel The story of Mel, a Real Programmer the Sublime The Summit at Haw River State Park The Thousand the Times The Tragic The Unconscious			The Meridian Resource Corporation The MERLIN Project The MERLIN Project The MERLIN Project The Merrill-Crowe Process The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The merry dancers The Merry Men The Merry Widow The Merse The Merse The Mesabi range The Mesabi range The Mess Hall The Message Center The Message in the Bottle The Message Remix The Messaging Industry Association The Messenger of Jehovah of hosts The Met The Met The Met the Met Office the Met Office the Met Office The Metabolomics Innovation Centre The Metadata Company The Metadata® Company The Metal Observer the Metaphysicals The Methodist Hospital The Methodist Hospital Research Institute The Metric System The Metric System The Metric System The Metroid Prime Union The metropolis The metropolis The Metropolis Marvel The Metropolis Marvel The Metropolis Marvel The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Opera The Mewlips The Miami Internet Times The Michael Kay Show The Michael Koolidge Show The Michigan Institute of Radiation Oncology The Mickey Mouse Club The Microcomputer Users Group The Microsoft Network The Microsoft Network The Microsoft Network The Microsoft Passport The Microsoft Situation The Microsoft Way The Mid-sea The Mid-Summer Derby the Midas touch

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