'A characteristic of the
conceit, indeed, from Donne to Traherne...is that it lays incompatibles side by
side, that it unites the apparently unrelated and indeed the logically
contradictory, that it obtains its effects by forcing things different in kind
on to the same plane of reference. In this broad sense we may speak of the
lyric of conflict, whose characteristics are an awareness in the poet's mind of
the new and troubling (especially the new scientific discoveries) as well as
the old and familiar, and an effort to fit them into a common scheme...'
Puritanism and Revolution, Christopher Hill
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