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 ...

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 ...

Nathaniel Mackey's book Blue Fasa has been described as metaphysical and mythological. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with poet Douglas Kearney about the lure of Mackey's words. Nathaniel Mackey's poetry ...

ohn Donne (1572–1631) and Abdul Qadir Bedil (1644–1720) emerged as titanic figures within their respective cultural, linguistic and historical milieus. A close reading of their oeuvres reveals ...

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 ...