Niamh Clune Plum Tree Books:

I really enjoyed having a piece I had written some time ago reblogged to the Happy Honkers blog site. Thank you!

Originally posted on Ripples in Water:

This article Defining Metaphysical Literature was re-posted from https://ontheplumtree.wordpress.com/

Thanks to Niamh Clune for the comprehensive definition

The term, Metaphysical literature, originally referred to poetic works from the 17th century and defined intellectually challenging poetry. Striving to incorporate the incorporeal, the transcendent, the noumenal, the subject matter itself posed a problem and poses it still. According to philosophers such as Nietzsche and Kant, nothing can be known about noumenal reality, not even that it exists. Yet, throughout the ages, humankind has striven to express the notion of soul, the fervour and truth accompanying vision and revelation, the divinity that speaks from within.

Early metaphysical poets such as John Donne extended metaphors that compared very dissimilar things. This was to make us think, to try to express the paradoxical nature of all things metaphysical. After all, in the search for truth and meaning, a truth is only considered a truth if it…

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DR. NIAMH CLUNE is the author of several children's books and the Skyla McFee series: Orange Petals in a Storm and Exaltation of a Lily. She is also the author of The Coming of the Feminine Christ: a ground-breaking spiritual psychology. Niamh received her Ph.D. from Surrey University on Acquiring Wisdom Through The Imagination and specialises in The Imaginal Mind and how the inborn, innate wisdom, hidden in the soul informs our daily lives and stories. Niamh is the CEO and founder of Plum Tree Books Ltd, dedicated to producing beautiful paperback, hardback and kindle children's books. Plum Tree Books also specialises in poetry, art books and unusual novels. For more information and the online store go HERE http://www.dr-nanaplum-amazingbooksforchildren.com/. Niamh’s Amazon page is http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004VRSQ1I

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