Other metaphysical poets include Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, John Cleveland, and Abraham Cowley. Yet Donne was the most influential metaphysical poet of the age. The term metaphysical is widely used by several 17th-century English writers, but not very common among modern writers. “The term “metaphysical,” applied to 17th-century English and continental European poets, was used by the Augustan poets John Dryden and Samuel Johnson to chide those poets for their “unnaturalness” (Academy). Basically, metaphysical poetry is made of paradoxes, abstract ideas, and things that are bigger than physical aspects, like love and religion. The works of metaphysical poets are full of peculiar uses of common literary devices such as similes and metaphors. Such composers were considered very intellectual and modern way of writing. “Early in the twentieth century, T. S. Elliot sought to restore their reputation, ascribing to them a unity of thought and feeling which had since been lost to poetry, and the characteristics attributed to it by later critics concern chiefly Women”