Who is the Major Metaphysical Poet? | John Donne MCQ | #shorts #jansenglishacademy #literature

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Hello everyone, this is John. I warmly welcome you all to John's English Academy. Let us discuss an important question from English literature. Who is a major metaphysical poet? The major metaphysical poet is John Donne.

[00:00:13]He was born in 1572 and died in 1631.

[00:00:19]There were major metaphysical poets apart from John Donne. They were George Herbert and Andrew Marvell.

[00:00:34]These poets didn't even know that they were named metaphysical poets. The term metaphysical poets or metaphysical poetry was coined by 18th century critic Samuel Johnson.

[00:00:48]So, the father of metaphysical poetry is considered to be John Donne. These metaphysical poets used the extended metaphors and these extended metaphors were called conceits.

[00:01:01]Meta means beyond, physical means this world, beyond this world. The metaphysical poets are different from the other poets. To know such interesting things, you can subscribe to John's English Academy and join English literature course, which is useful for JL, DL, SET and UGC NET. Thank you very much. Have a nice day.