SOURCE: "Jonson, Donne, and Their Successors," in English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660, Clarendon Press, 1945, pp. 104-69.
In the following excerpt, Bush surveys the work of several metaphysical poets who wrote as the revolutionary crisis in England developed. He notes their religious affiliations and the ways in which those beliefs influenced their poetry.
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