Question

Who formally introduced the term "Metaphysical poets"?

• A. John Dryden
• B. Samuel Johnson
• C. T.S. Eliot
• D. Ben Jonson

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Samuel Johnson

• Johnson used the term in Life of Cowley (1779).

• He described a group of 17th-century poets.

• The term became standard in literary criticism.