"Then love is sin, and let me sinful be" Samuel Johnson was poet and literary critic, who first coined the term metaphysical poetry in his book lives of the most eminent English poets in 1779. Also known as lives of poets. The term metaphysical poets name which was given by Dr Samuel Johnson in derision because of the fantastic form of Donne's poetry, who borrowed it from John Dryden's phrase about John Donne , He affects the metaphysics( Negative review). Drummond is the first critic to write of a group of metaphysical poets. D onne is considered as father of metaphysical poetry. The term metaphysical means something supernatural and transcendental(उत्तमोत्तम). The word meta means beyond, after and physical means body nature. Its sense is 'what is beyond physical'. It is concerned with fundamental problems of life, death, soul even after death. The term metaphysical poetry means poetry dealing with metaphysical subjects. These subjects are nature of univers...
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