The Incarnation, and Passion Lord, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory, To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam’st a woful story. To put on clouds instead of light, ...

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) was an English poet and, like John Donne and George Herbert, he is considered one of the major metaphysical poets. Like these two poets, too, Crashaw was an Anglican priest ...

The ravaged settings in which many of D. Nurkse’s new poems take place — including New York on 9/11 — seem perfectly matched to the grizzled, Herman Melville–esque visage in his author photo. Clearly, ...

Death mark of the poet John Donne, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London 1632. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics ...

Last month I began in this space a 12-part, month-to-month series introducing poems from the Renaissance to the 21st century as a way to highlight the historic conversation that exists among poets ...

Ionce took a college course titled “Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poetry” and, like most young people, was bowled over by the poems of John Donne (1572-1631). They possess a fire and theatrical ...

The CLA Journal is a multilingual, peer-reviewed quarterly publication by the College Language Association. Established in 1957, the journal fosters the publication of socially engaged, innovative, ...

Metaphysical Dog is winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award. Long a source of trepidation for Bidart, questions of the body and its suitability to human consciousness pervade ...

Stanley Kunitz, who died Sunday at 100, was among the nation’s most lauded poets. Recognized by peers for his brilliance from his days at Harvard, Kunitz slowly produced a body of work that garnered ...