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Is Andrew Marvell Metaphysical or Cavalier poet?

April 26, 2017Arts authors Books Cavalier Humanities poet

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Is Andrew Marvell Metaphysical or Cavalier poet?

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Marvell is commonly described as one of the “metaphysical” poets, however this would not have not stopped him using themes and motifs from other styles. The metaphysical poets were not a group or school, it was merely a convenient term for Donne, Marvell, Traherne and Vaughan coined by Dryden.