The Appeal of John Donne to the Modern Age: A critical Study

Abstract

John Donne is generally regarded as the central figure, the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry which flourished in the early half of the 17th century. The other poets of the school are George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell and Abraham Cowley. John Donne has more of the distinctive qualities of this school of poetry and he is certainly the enkindling influence. The seminal force, for all the poets of this school. Though Donne was a source of inspiration to the different poets of this school his influence was far greater on the religious poets his influence is more than on the secular ones, and even on the religious poets his influence is more in evidence in their technique than on their subject matter.