Seven Metaphysical Poets - A Structural Study of the Unchanging SelfRobert Ellrodt's study of seven poets springing from his wide ranging three volume work, Les Potes mtaphysiques anglais challenges the postmodernist assumption that no definite or constant self can be traced in the works of a writer. Distinct modes of self awareness, different emphases in the perception of time and space, and various ways of grasping the sensible and the spiritual, the human and the divine, jointly or separately characterize the minds