Which of the following is a set of metaphysical poets?
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Correct answer: A. John Donne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell
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Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell, Crashaw and Cowley are the metaphysicals. Dryden and Pope are Augustans, and Johnson, Eliot and Grierson are critics of the metaphysicals.
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