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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 43

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple select

Identify the writers who are referred to as ‘metaphysical poets’:

  1. John Donne
  2. Andrew Marvell
  3. Philip Larkin
  4. T. S. Eliot

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Correct answer: (A) John Donne; (B) Andrew Marvell

Explanation

Donne and Marvell are seventeenth-century Metaphysical poets. Eliot admired them, and Larkin belongs to the Movement.