“It is not impossible to see why Donne’s poetry should be over-rated in the 20th century and under-rated in the eighteenth.” Comment.

IntroductionAs a leader of the Metaphysical school of poetry, Donne exercised a considerable and healthy influence on his contemporaries. His rhythms, conceits and phrases’ are imitated by Herbert on whom his influence is really great. Herbert’s poems reveal brain-work and the structure of his poems is logical. Vaughan too draws upon many of the images and ideas of Donne’s poetry. Similarly,