Henry Vaughan (Fyfield Books) [Paperback]

Robert B. Shaw (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 1981 | ISBN-10: 0856351393 | ISBN-13: 978-0856351396

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 predecessor, George Herbert. This collection presents the complete text of Silex Scitillans, including material in both the 1650 and 1655 editions, and is the only edition of selected poems available.

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Abel's Blood
Admission
Affliction
The Agreement
Anguish
As Time One Day By Me Did Pass
Ascension Day
Ascension Hymn
The Ass
Begging (1)
Begging (2)
The Bird
The Book
The British Church
Burial
The Burial Of An Infant
The Call
The Check
Cheerfulness
Childhood
Christ's Nativity
Church Service
Cock-crowing
Come, Come, What Do I Here
The Constellation
Content
Corruption
The Daughter Of Herodias
The Dawning
The Day Of Judgement
Day Of Judgement
Death (1)
Death (2)
The Dedication (1)
The Dedication (2)
Disorder And Frailty
Distraction
Dressing
The Dwelling-place
Easter Hymn
Easter-day
The Evening-watch; A Dialogue
Fair And Young Light! My Guide To Holy
Faith
The Favour
The Feast
The Flower
The Garland
H. Scriptures
The Hidden Treasure
The Holy Communion
Idle Verse
The Incarnation And Passion
Isaac's Marriagge
Jacob's Pillow And Pillar
Jesus Weeping (1)
Jesus Weeping (2)
The Jews
Joy
Joy Of My Life! While Left Me Here
The Knot
L'envoy
The Lamp [lampe]
The Law And The Gospel
Love And Discipline
Love-sick
Man
Man's Fall And Recovery
The Match
The Men Of War
Midnight
Misery
The Morning-watch
Mount Of Olives (1)
Mount Of Olives (2)
The Mutiny
The Night
The Obsequies
The Ornament
Palm Sunday
The Palm-tree
The Passion
Peace
The Pilgrimage
Praise
The Proffer
Providence
Psalm 104
Psalm 121
Psalm 65
The Pursuit
The Queer
Quickness
The Rainbow
Regeneration
The Relapse
Religion
Repentance
The Resolve
Resurrection And Immortality
Retirement
The Retreat
Righteousness
Rom. Cap. 8 Ver. 19
Rules And Lessons
The Sap
The Search
The Seed Growing Secretly
The Shepherds
The Shower (1)
Since Thou Art Gone
Son-dayes
St. Mary Magdalen
The Star
The Stone
The Storm
Sure, There's A Tie Of Bodies! And As They
Tears
The Tempest
They Are All Gone
Thou That Know'st For Whom I Mourn
The Throne
The Timber
To The Holy Bible
Trinity Sunday
Unprofitableness
Vain Wits And Eyes
Vanity Of Spirits
The Waterfall
White Sunday
The World (1)
The Wreath
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 79 pages
• Publisher: Carcanet Pr (November 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0856351393
• ISBN-13: 978-0856351396
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Henry Vaughan (Oxford Poetry Library) (Paperback)

Henry Vaughan is rightly regarded as the great mystic poet of his time. Although a firm believer in Christianity, his is not the sort of Christianity that is comfortable with the world God has made. He is more a believer, one might say, in the Fall, and longs for the angelic world which he catches glimpses of from time to time. This selection of poems is an excellent introduction to his disposition, which deal more with escaping this world than glorifying the next. Brief Examples: In "Child-hood" his love of that innocent period "which angels guard" and the impossibility of returning to that state of bliss make him ask himself "Why if I see a rock or shelf, Shall I thence cast myself down" ...."Since all that age doth teach, is ill"----And in "The Night," he speculates that there is in God "a deep, but dazzling darkness;" and proclaims "O for that night! where I in him/ Might live invisible and dim."-Vaughan was really ahead of his time and more resembles Shelley and his later disciple Francis Thompson than any poet of his age (including George Herbert). After reading this selection of poems, one feels that Vaughan was a unique sort of Christian. More to the point, one questions whether Christianity was not the mere medium through which Vaughan, in tune with his age, conveyed his mystical yearning and escapism, which is the core of his poetry and his being.