Metaphysical poets English poetry. Colin Burrow's opinion, on the other hand, is that the term 'Metaphysical poets' still retains some value. For one thing, Donne's poetry had considerable influence on subsequent poets, who emulated his style. And there are several instances in which 17th-century poets used the word 'metaphysical' in their work, meaning that Samuel Johnson's description has some foundation in the usage of the previous century. However, the term does isolate English poets from those who shared similar stylistic traits in Europe and America. Since the 1960s, therefore, it has been argued that gathering all of these under the heading of
Gary Young (poet) at Brown University. He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, with his wife and two sons. In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published "One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology" through Lynx House Press. Gary Young's is a sensibility unique in American poetry, at once grounded in daily experience in his home in California and yet focused on, tuned to a metaphysical cast, a direction in no small way influenced by deep reading of Asian poetries. A luminous