Henry Vaughan

Vaughan, Henry - vôn, 1622–95, one of the English metaphysical poets. Born in Breconshire, Wales, he signed himself Silurist, after the ancient inhabitants of that region. After leaving Oxford, where he did not take a degree, he turned to the study of law. Later he switched to medicine and spent his life as a highly respected physician. His greatest poetry is contained in Silex Read More...

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Henry Vaughan: A Life and Interpretation
by F. E. Hutchinson. 262 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Works of Henry Vaughan

Abbreviations: Used in Footnotes

I The Vaughans of Tretower

II: Childhood

III: Oxford and London

IV: Return to Breconshire

V: Military Service

VI: Olor Iscanus

VII: At Home

VIII: Conversion

IX: The Puritan RÉgime

X: The Prose Treatises

XI: Thomas Vaughan and Occult Philosophy

XII: Henry Vaughan, Silurist

XIII: Silex Scintillans

XIV: Henry Vaughan, Doctor in Physic

XV: The Middle Years

XVI: Thalia Rediviva

XVII: Lawsuits and Family Dissensions

XVIII: The End

Appendix A: Henry Vaughan's Immediate Ancestry

Appendix B: Date of Henry Vaughan's Birth

Appendix C: Henry Vaughan's Descendants

Genealogies

Index
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The Works of Henry Vaughan
by Leonard Cyril Martin. 332 pgs.

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Silex Scintillans

Silex Scintillans: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations.

The Authors Preface to the Following Hymns.

Silex Scintillans, &c.

An Alphabetical Table, Containing the Several Titles of All the Hymns or Sacred Poems in These Two Books.

Hermetical Physick: Or, the Right Way to Prev+017ferve, and to Reſtore Health.

The Translator to the Ingenious Reader.

Chap. I.

Chap. 2.

Chap. 3. of Diseases in Generall.

Chap. 4. of the Extrarious or Conjoyned and Apparent Cause of the Disease.

Chap. 5. of Tartar.

Chap. 6. of God, the First and Supreme Cause of the Extrarious Cause.

Chap. 7. of the Excesse and the Defect of Necessaries, Which is the Second Cause of the Extrarious Cause.

Chap. 8. of Fire, the Third Cause of the Extrarious Cause.

Chap. 9. of Hereditary Impurity, Which is the Fourth Cause of the Extrarious Cause.

Chap. 10. of Imagination, the Fifth Cause of the Extrarious Cause.

Chap. Ii. of Violent Illation, Which is the Sixth and Last Cause of the Extrarious Cause.

Chap. 12. of the Cure of Diseases.

Thalia Rediviva:: The Paʃs-Times and Diverʃions of a Countrey-Muse, in Choice Poems on ſeveral Occaſions.

To the Reader.

The King Disguis'D.

Translations. Some Odes of the Excellent and Knowing Severinus, Englished.

Pious Thoughts and Ejaculations.

Appendix I. Poems of Uncertain Authorship.

Appendix Ii. Vaughan's Letters to John Aubrey and Anthony Wood.

Notes.

Index of First Lines.
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On the Poems of Henry Vaughan: Characteristics and Intimations
by Edmund Blunden. 66 pgs.

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To the Reader

On the Poems of Henry Vaughan

Note on the Use of Italics In "Silex Scintillans"

Marginalia to Some of the Poems

Translations From Vaughan's Latin
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Of Paradise and Light: A Study of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans
by E. C. Pettet. 220 pgs.

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Preface

Part 1: The Shaping of the Poetry

Chapter I: From Within

Chapter II: The Bible

Chapter III: Herbert's Poetry

Chapter V: The Book of Nature

Part II: Studies Of Four Major Poems

Chapter VI: 'Regeneration'-- An Interpretation

Chapter VIII: 'the Night'

Chapter IX: 'they Are All Gone Into The World of Light'

Part III: Some General Impressions

Chapter X: Further Notes on Vaughan's Imagery

Chapter XI: Vaughan's Music

Chapter XII: A Rhetorical Strain

Chapter XIII: The Unity and Continuity Of 'silex Scintillans'

Chapter XIV: Clouded Star

Index
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Three Metaphysical Poets (Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne)
by Margaret Willy. 48 pgs.

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I: Richard Crashaw

II: Henry Vaughan

III: Thomas Traherne

A Select Bibliography
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Four Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw
by Joan Frankau Bennett. 127 pgs.

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

Chapter I: Introductory

Chapter II: John Donne, 1573-1631

Chapter III: Donne's Technical Originality

Chapter IV: George Herbert, 1593-1633

Chapter V: Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695

Chapter VI: Richard Crashaw, 1613?-1649

Chapter VII: Religious Poetry: A Postscript

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

INDEX
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Poets and Mystics (Chap. 12 "Henry Vaughan")
by E. I. Watkin. 320 pgs.

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Chapter I Poetry and Mysticism

Chapter II: "He Wanted Art"

Chapter III: Drama and Religion

Chapter IV: A Puritan Devotion to the Sacred Heart

Chapter V: Dame Julian of Norwich

Chapter VI: In Defence of Margery Kempe

Bibliography

Chapter VII: Richard Crashaw

Chapter VIII: William Crashaw's Influence on His Son

Chapter IX: Dom Augustine Baker

Chapter X: John Smith the Cambridge Platonist

Chapter XI: The Spiritual Teaching of Sister Elizabeth Of the Trinity

Chapter XII: Henry Vaughan

Bibliography

Chapter XIII: Urania: the Poetry of Miss Ruth Pitter
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John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets ("Henry Vaughan: Modes of Communication" begins on p. 139)
by Harold Bloom. 267 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

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Modern Critical Views

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Editor's Note

Introduction

John Freccero Donne's Compass Image

John Hollander Donne and the Limits of Lyric

William Kerrigan the Fearful Accommodations of John Donne

Claudia Brodsky Donne: The Imaging of the Logical Conceit

Thomas R. Whitaker Herrick and the Fruits of the Garden

Stanley E. Fish Letting Go: The Dialectic of the Self in Herbert's Poetry

Helen Vendler Alternatives: The Reinvented Poem

A. R. Cirillo Crashaw's "Epiphany Hymn": The Dawn of Christian Time

Louis Martz Henry Vaughan

Ruth Nevo Marvell's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"

Harry Berger, Jr. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House": An Interpretation

Geoffrey Hartman "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun": A Brief Allegory

Barbara K. Lewalski Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Poetry and Humanism (Chap. 8 "Vaughan: The Symphony of Nature")
by M. M. Mahood. 335 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgment

I Poetry and Humanism

Ii Two Anglican Poets

Iii Marlowe's Heroes

Iv Donne: the Progress of the Soul

V Donne: the Baroque Preacher

Vi Milton: the Baroque Artist

Vii Milton's Heroes

Viii Vaughan: the Symphony of Nature

Conclusion: the Centric Happiness

Notes and References

Index
10 .

The Cultural Revolution of the Seventeenth Century ("The Poetry of Henry Vaughan, Silurist" begins on p. 121)
by S. L. Bethell. 166 pgs.

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Prefatory Note

Contents

The Cultural Revolution Of The Seventeenth Century

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Three: Two Conceptions of the Universe and Their Significance for 'Reason' and 'Faith'

Chapter Four: The Two Universes in Literary Theory And Practice

Chapter Five: Conclusion

The Poetry Of Henry Vaughan, Silurist
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Vaughan's "Regeneration": An Emendation, in American Notes & Queries
by Edgar F. Daniels. 2 pgs.

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Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum
by Donald R. Dickson, Holly Faith Nelson. 393 pgs.

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Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum

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Illustrations

Introduction

Civil War Cleavage: More Force Than Fashion in Vaughan's Silex Scintillans

The [true, Practic Piety] of [holy Writing]: Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Christopher Harvey, and the Temple

Milton's Jarring Allusions

Milton and the Index

Raphael, Diodati

Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation, and Trial in Paradise Regained

Biblical Structures in Silex Scintillans: the Poetics and Politics of Intertextuality

Boethius and Henry Vaughan: the Consolatio Translations of Olor Iscanus

The Mount of Olives: Vaughan's Book of Private Prayer

Henry Vaughan, Orpheus, and the Empowerment of Poetry

[winged and Free]: Henry Vaughan's Birds

Water, Wood, and Stone: the Living Earth in Poems of Vaughan and Milton

Time and the Word: a Reading of Henry Vaughan's [the Search]

Henry Vaughan's Poems of Mourning

Lark, Wild Thyme, Crowing Cock, and Waterfall: the Natural, the Moral, and the Political in Blake's Milton and Vaughan's Silex Scintillans

Principal Publications of Alan Rudrum

Consolidated Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination ("Resistance, Collaboration, and Silence: Henry Vaughan and Breconshire Royalism" begins on p. 102)
by Ted-Larry Pebworth, Claude J. Summers. 279 pgs.

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The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cavalier

“a Sad Intestine Warr”: Mildmay Fane and the Poetry of Civil Strife

Herrick's Masque of Death

From Witty History to Typology: John Cleveland's “the Kings Disguise”

“small Types of Great Ones”: Richard Lovelace's Separate Peace

Resistance, Collaboration, and Silence: Henry Vaughan and Breconshire Royalism

“is There No Temperate Region . . . ?”: Coopers Hill and the Call for Moderation

The Garrisoned Muse: Women's Use of the Religious Lyric in the Civil War Period

Two Letters to Lord Fairfax: Winstanley and Marvell

“a Most Humane Foe”: Colonel Robert Overton's War with the Muses

Paradox in Poetry and Politics: Katherine Philips in the Interregnum

“we Saw a New Created Day”: Restoration Revisions of Civil War Apocalypse

“ostentation Vain of Fleshly Arm”: Milton's Revaluation of the Heroic Celebration of Military Virtue

Dismembering and Remembering: The English Civil War and Male Identity

The Phoenix and the Crocodile: Milton's Natural Law Debate with Hobbes Retried in the Tragic Forum of Samson Agonistes

Notes on the Contributors

Index of Works Cited
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Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hardin Craig ("The Theme of Pre-Existence and Infancy in the Retreate" begins on p. 292)
by W. D. Briggs, Francis R. Johnson, Baldwin Maxwell, E. N. S. Thompson. 344 pgs.

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Hardin Craig

The York Play of Christ Led Up to Calvary (play Xxxiv)

The Miracle Play: Notes and Queries

Some Aspects of the Origin of Italian Humanism

Fortune in the Tragedies of Giraldi Cintio

Fracastoro and the Imagination

Current English Translations of the Praise of Folly

The Proverb "The Black Ox Has Not Trod on His Foot" in Renaissance Literature

Aspects of Spenser's Vocabulary

The Neo-Platonic Ladder in Spenser's Amoretti

Greene's Panther

Backgrounds for Marlowe's Atheist Lecture

The Taming of a Shrew

The Two Angry Women of Abington and Wily Beguiled

Aims of a Popular Elizabethan Dramatist

The Fall of Icarus

Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece

Perseus Purloins Pegasus

Two Notes on Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Use of His Sources

Shakespeare as a Critic

The Mind's Construction in the Face

That Undiscovered Country: A Problem Concerning the Use of the Supernatural in Hamlet and Macbeth1

Comedy in the Court Masque: a Study of Ben Jonson's Contribution

John Ford and Elizabethan Tragedy

Richard Hooker Among the Controversialists

The Myth of John Donne the Rake

A Protest Against the Term Conceit

The Theme of Pre-Existence and Infancy in the Retreate

A Note on Two Words in Milton's History of Moscovia

Grundtvig on Paradise Lost

The English Religious Restoration, 1660-1665

Bibliography of the Writings of Hardin Craig from 1901 to 19401
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English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century (Chap. 7 "Arenas of Retreat: Blood, Bread, and Poetry in Henry Vaughan"
by Jonathan F. S. Post. 324 pgs.

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English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets. This extremely lucid and elegantly written book avoids the limitations of much recent criticism. Donne, Jonson, the Spenserians, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Vaughan, as well as many non-canonical and women poets, all receive sustained, fresh, and detailed analysis. Jonathan Post seeks to assimilate many of the post-New Critical theoretical concerns with readings of the major and minor, male and female, authors of the period.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

A Note on Sources and Spelling

1: Irremediably Donne

2: Ben Jonson and the Art of Inclusion

3: Patriotic and Popular Poets

4: Caroline Amusements

5: Substance and Style in George Herbert’s the Temple

6: The Once and Future Poet

7: Arenas of Retreat

8: From Wroth to Philips

9: Andrew Marvell

Notes

Index
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The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors ("Henry Vaughan" begins on p. 340)
by Alan Hager. 392 pgs.

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The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of the period reflects the intellectual and emotional fervor of the age. This reference chronicles the lives and works of more than 75 British and American writers of the 17th century.

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Preface

Timeline of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors

(1672-1719)

(1555-1626)

(1666-1731)

(1626-1697)

(1561-1626)

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(1640?-1689)

(1649-1708)

(1627-1691)

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(1612-1672)

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(1605-1682)

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(1628-1688)

(1577-1640)

(1612/1613-1680)

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(1567-1620)

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(C. 1595-1639)

(C. 1585-1639)

(1623-1673)

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(1559?-1634)

(1656-1710)

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(1613-1658)

(1653-1713)

(1618-1667)

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(C. 1613-1649)

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(1599-1658)

(1606-1668)

(1658-1734)

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(1572-1631)

(1563-1631)

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(1631-1700)

(1608-1666)

(1661-1720)

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(1582-1650)

(1586-1639?)

(1563-1639 and 1593-1652/1653)

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(1554-1628)

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(1578-1657)

(1593-1633)

(1591-1674)

(1588-1679)

(1572/1573-1637)

(1660-1685)

(1666-1727)

(C. 1634-1693)

(1569?-1645)

(1615-1657)

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(1618-1657)

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(C. 1637-1711)

(1577-1640)

(C. 1642-1692)

(1671-1713)

(1564-1616)

(1632-1677)

(1608/1609-1642)

(1652-1715)

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(1636?-1674)

(1599-1641)

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(1621?-1695)

(1599-1660)

(1632-1675)

(1606-1687)

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(1568-1635)

(1641-1715)

List of Authors by Birth Year

Selected General Bibliography

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