Is /lit/ a Jonson or a Donne board? Or, differently put, do you prefer Metaphysical or Cavalier poetry?

>>24500530 (OP)
Metaphysical.

>>24500530 (OP)
never read about them don't know what metaphysical or cavalier poetry means. can anyone share a decent explanation please?

/lit/ is a drayton board
>Their Curates are vnriuetted with blowes,
>With horrid wounds their breasts and faces slasht;
>There drops a cheeke, and there falls off a nose:
>And in ones face his fellowes braines are dasht;
>Yet still the Better with the English goes;
>The earth of France with her owne blood is washt;
>They fall so fast, she scarse affords them roome,
>That one mans Trunke becomes anothers Toombe.

I like Shakespearean clowns

>Ariosto

>>24502240
This is a thread about 17th century English poetry you fucking idiot.

>>24501834
Donne and Jonson divided English poetry in the first half of the 17th century with their influence. Donne and his followers were called Metaphysicals, those court poets who followed Jonson were called Cavaliers. There are many easy to find descriptions of their respective poetry styles on the internet.

>>24500530 (OP)
Philip Sidney for me

for me, it's richard crashaw
>Fond anchor, Hope! who tak'st thine aime so farr
>That still or short or wide thine arrows are;
>Thinne empty cloud which th' ey deceiues
>With shapes that our own fancy giues.
>Brother of Fear, more gaily clad,
>merryer fool o' th' two, yet quite as mad.
>Sire of Repentance, child of fond desire
>That blow'st the chymick's and the louer's fire.
>Still leading them insensibly on
>With the strong witchcraft of 'anon.'
>By thee the one does changing nature, through
>Her endlesse labyrinths pursue;
>And th' other chases woman; while she goes
>More wayes and turnes then hunted Nature knowes.

>>24504025
simply delicious