Metaphysical poets the Metaphysical style. The choice of style by the young Milton and the young Dryden can therefore be explained in part as contextual. Both went on to develop radically different ways of writing; neither could be counted as potentially Metaphysical poets. Nor could Alexander Pope, yet his early poetry evidences an interest in his Metaphysical forebears. Among his juvenilia appear imitations of Cowley. As a young man he began work on adapting Donne's second satire, to which he had added the fourth satire too by 1735. Pope also wrote his “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” (1717) while
Metaphysical Society of America history of the society, "Being in America: Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society", was published by Rodopi in 2014 in its Histories and Addresses of Philosophical Societies Series. Since the founding of the Metaphysical Society, presidential addresses have been published in the "Review of Metaphysics", which was also founded by Paul Weiss. Metaphysical Society of America The Metaphysical Society of America is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950. As stated in its constitution, "The purpose of the Metaphysical Society of America is the study of reality." The society is a member of the American Council of Learned