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In considering Marvell's place among the metaphysicals, it is necessary to distinguish those qualities which he shares with them from those in which he diverges. Like Donne he displays a readiness to unite thought and feeling, to treat emotion as a subject for argumentative intelligence. Unlike Donne he rarely allows the argument to overwhelm the lyric subject. Marvell achieves a balance in which intellect illuminates sensibility without submerging it.