Discordia Concors: The Wit of Metaphysical Poetry

Adam and Eve allusion Almighty Sun Andrew Marvell appears Areopagitica becomes circle concors as unity contrariety Coy Mistress created dark death discord discordia concors divine metaphor Donne's Donnean doth Drop of Dew earthly Elizabeth Drury epic eternity exalted F. R. Leavis Fall false flowers Garden George Herbert glory God's harmony heaven and earth heavenly Helen Gardner Henry Vaughan Heraclitus heterogeneous ideas John Donne John Milton Juliana kind of discordia light lovers man's manna Manna's sacred Dew Marvell's meta metaphors metaphysical poets metaphysical wit Miltonic simile mortal Mower mystic nature night occult occult resemblances Paradise Lost paradox pattern of discordia poem poet's poetic poetry praise regenerate Renaissance Reprint reveals Satan Scripture seventeenth century Silex Silex Scintillans song soul spirit spring stanza symbolic Temple test simile things thir thou tion transcendent truth unity in multiplicity University Press verse violent yoking vision yoking of opposites