Seven metaphysical poets : a structural study of the unchanging self

This book explores the minds of Donne, George and Edward Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Marvell, and Traherne. It brings to light the characteristics of their modes of self-awareness, their perception of time and space, and their religious sensibility, challenging the postmodernist assumption that no definite or constant self can be traced in the works of a writer.