... it becomes more crude (eg. Romantic poets Gray, Browning, Tennyson). The sentimentality of poetry also increased from the 18th century. Essentially, this is a return to the sensibility to the Petrachan poets, only expressed in a more refined and sophisticated way. While Eliot sees that metaphysical poets have their faults, its is that they are -trying to find verbal equivalents for states of mind ... passions."" He does not believe Donne explores the true nature and experience of love, merely experiences rooted in his personal life, without exploring -the deeper and more permanent sprin...

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