Other metaphysical poets include Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, John Cleveland, and Abraham Cowley. Yet Donne was the most influential metaphysical poet of the era. The term metaphysics is widely used among several 17th-century English writers, but uncommon among modern writers. “The term 'metaphysical,' applied to English and continental European poets of the 17th century, was used by the Augustan poets John Dryden and Samuel Johnson to chastise these poets for their 'unnaturalness' (Academy). Basically, metaphysical poetry is made of paradoxes, abstract ideas and things that go beyond the physical, like love and religion. The works of metaphysical poets are filled with peculiar uses of common literary devices such as similes and metaphors. and modern. “At the beginning of the 20th century, TS Elliot sought to restore their reputation, attributing to them a unity of thought and feeling which had been lost since their time. There was, however, no formal “school” of metaphysics. the poetry, and the characteristics attributed to it by later critics, belong mainly to Donne”