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"The metaphysical poet of British cinema and a generous, brilliant, kind and politically engaged man."
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022
In the words of the metaphysical poet John Donne, one of Sacks’s literary masters, Awakenings depicts his patients’ “preternatural birth, in returning to life, from this sickness” – a birth sometimes fraught with awful tribulations.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2015
But the metaphor was first recorded in the works of the metaphysical poet John Donne.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2014
Nick Christian, a marketing manager in London, had part of metaphysical poet John Donne's The Sun Rising tattooed onto his leg in his final year at university.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2013
There is many a metaphysical poet in the same predicament with honest Hogg.
From Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving
