Metaphysical poets still young, introducing into it a string of Metaphysical conceits in the lines beginning “Most souls, ‘tis true, but peep out once an age” which in part echo a passage from Donne's “Second Anniversary”. By the time Pope wrote this, the vogue for the Metaphysical style was over and a new orthodoxy had taken its place, of which the rewriting of Donne's satires was one expression. Nevertheless, Johnson's dismissal of the ‘school’ was still in the future and at the start of the 18th century allusions to their work struck an answering chord in readers. During the course of the
No One Is Alone (song) of the score by Friday. The next day Sondheim and Lapine left for New York." There was initially an issue over whether the song had been inspired by a preexisting poem. James Lapine explained to LA Weekly that he killed the Baker's Wife in Act II because in real life tragedies happen to human beings, and quoting "No One Is Alone," "Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods". Stephen Sondheim liked the duality of the title, which trumped the alternate title of "No Man Is An Island". In 1994, lyrics from the song was emblazoned on a signed charity