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
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