What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
Correct answer: D. A and B
- A. its intellectual complexity
- B. its union of thought and passion
- C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
- D. A and B
Explanation
Modernist writers admired Metaphysical poetry for its intellectual complexity and for joining thought with intense feeling rather than separating reason from passion. These two qualities are combined in option D.
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