Metaphysical
Poetry
1600's
Seventeenth Century
Donne, Marvell,
Herbert, Crashaw
Highly intellectual
Ethics, religion and love
Emotions blended with
intellectual ingenuity
Romantic
Poetry
1800's
Nineteenth Century
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, and sometimes Tennyson
About dreams and the subconscious or supernatural, Christianity or Transcendentalism
Often about a hero, knights, damsels in distress
Poems
Male poets
Metaphysical vs. Romantic Era Poetry
(author: Malec)
