7 See W. Jackson Bate, The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970; rpt. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1972), esp. pp. 26-27, and also I. W.'s remark to the reader that amplifies the sense of belatedness present in both “Upon ...
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There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life. However, at the tercentenary of his death his writing remains as influential as ever...
One of the most important of the seventeenth-century Metaphysical Poets, Henry Vaughan is interesting not only for his own work, but for his imaginative use of the style of his...
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Henry Vaughan: A Selection of His Poems
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