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Henry Vaughan (1621 - April 28, 1695) was a Welsh Metaphysical poet and a doctor, a twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan. Vaughan was born, & lived for virtually all of his life, in the village of Llansanffraid, near Brecon, where he is buried. In a period of the English Civil War, he was a Royalist sympathiser. He took his literary inspiration from either his native environment, calling himself the "Silurist" within court to the Silures, the Celtic tribe of south Wales which resisted a Roman invasion of Britain. Vaughan's greatest verse appears in the collection Silex scintillans, number 1 published inside 1650.
Henry Vaughan's poetry reflects his love of nature and mysticism and influenced the operate of Wordsworth, among others. Lot of Vaughan's poetry has the particularly modern healthy. This is an lesson of an especially beautiful fragment of one of his verse form entitled
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Luminarium: Henry Vaughan Includes online texts, biographical and historical information, and links. Henry Vaughan's Secular Poetry Chapter from Cavalier and Puritan, a volume from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Includes sections on Vaughan's poetry. Henry Vaughan A short biography at Infoplease.com. Netpoets.com: Henry Vaughan Text of Vaughan's "The Retreat" and "Peace". Bartleby.com: Henry Vaughan Includes four poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Selected Poetry of Henry Vaughan Eleven poems from Representative Poetry On-line at the University of Toronto. |
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