The document summarizes Eliot's essay on "The Metaphysical Poets" which reviewed Herbert J. C. Grierson's anthology of metaphysical lyrics and poems from the 17th century. It then provides 4 short excerpts or passages from the poems of Jules Laforgue and Charles Baudelaire to illustrate the metaphysical style of poetry discussed in Eliot's essay.
The document summarizes Eliot's essay on "The Metaphysical Poets" which reviewed Herbert J. C. Grierson's anthology of metaphysical lyrics and poems from the 17th century. It then provides 4 short excerpts or passages from the poems of Jules Laforgue and Charles Baudelaire to illustrate the metaphysical style of poetry discussed in Eliot's essay.
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The document summarizes Eliot's essay on "The Metaphysical Poets" which reviewed Herbert J. C. Grierson's anthology of metaphysical lyrics and poems from the 17th century. It then provides 4 short excerpts or passages from the poems of Jules Laforgue and Charles Baudelaire to illustrate the metaphysical style of poetry discussed in Eliot's essay.
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1. Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler.
Selected and edited, with an Essay, by Herbert J. C. Grierson (Oxford: CIarendon Press. London; Milford). Eliot's essay was a review of Grierson's anthology published in the Times Literary Supplement. Return
2. O transparent geraniums, warrior incantations,
Monomaniacal sacrileges! Packing materials, shamelessnesses, shower baths! O wine presses Of great evening vintages! Hard-pressed baby linen, Thyrsis in the depths of the woods! Transfusions, reprisals, Churchings, compresses, and the eternal potion, Angelus! No longer to be borne [are] Catastrophic marriages! Catastrophic marriages!
Jules Laforgue, from "Last Poems X" (1890). Return
3. "She is far away, she weeps, / The great wind mourns also." Laforgue, from "Last Poems XI." Return
4. For the child, in love with maps and prints,
The universe matches his vast appetite. Ah, how big the world is by lamplight! How small the world is to the eyes of memory!