ABSTRACT
All, no doubt, owed much to that mighty influence of Donne, which was so strangely disconnected from any publication of his work. But Donne himself is metaphysical in the greatest and widest sense. His thoughts, even his conceits, are never far-fetched, because his immense and brooding imagination reaches to them all without the trouble of fetching. The others have to fetch them; they could in some cases hardly go farther, they could in many hardly fare worse.
