Metaphysical poets of Wotton himself that prefaced the collection of Wotton's works in 1651. A life of George Herbert followed them in 1670. The links between Donne’s elegists were thus of a different order from those between Donne and his circle of friends, often no more than professional acquaintanceship. And once the poetic style had been launched, its tone and approach remained available as a model for later writers who might not necessarily commit themselves so wholly to it. Metaphysical poets The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose
The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man to Palestine, they famously reported back that the bride 'was beautiful but married to another man.' But the implication of this wry remark — that the Zionists should attempt to marry someone else — was disregarded." The phrase has also been cited as an 1890s fact-finding message in the 2008 BBC Two documentary "The Birth of Israel", produced by Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen, and by P. J. O'Rourke, Adam LeBor, and Mustapha Marrouchi. The titles of the books "Married to Another Man" (2007) by Ghada Karmi and (in Swedish) "Bruden är vacker men har redan en man" by Ingmar