The complete poems /
Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695.
The complete poems / Henry Vaughan ; edited by Alan Rudrum. - New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1976. - 718 p. ; 20 cm. - The English poets .
Bibliography: p. [23]-26.
Includes indexes.
Summary:
Although he wrote some secular verse in suitably fashionable modes, Henry Vaughan is chiefly valued for his religious poetry. Less worldly than Donne or Herbert, to whom he is indebted, Vaughan wrote poetry both mysterious and richly suggestive. His approach to Christianity, however, cannot be given precise and indisputable definition, as he was strongly influenced by hermeticism and other prevailing currents of mysticism. In addition, his response to nature marks him out from his contemporaries and, in some respects, prefigures nineteenth-century romanticism. This is the most comprehensively annotated edition of Vaughan's complete poems yet to appear and, for the first time, makes a serious attempt to unravel the host of biblical allusions which suffuse his work. - Back cover.
0300026803 0300026870 (pbk.)
80053979
PR3740 / .A1 1981
821.4 / HEN 1976
The complete poems / Henry Vaughan ; edited by Alan Rudrum. - New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1976. - 718 p. ; 20 cm. - The English poets .
Bibliography: p. [23]-26.
Includes indexes.
Summary:
Although he wrote some secular verse in suitably fashionable modes, Henry Vaughan is chiefly valued for his religious poetry. Less worldly than Donne or Herbert, to whom he is indebted, Vaughan wrote poetry both mysterious and richly suggestive. His approach to Christianity, however, cannot be given precise and indisputable definition, as he was strongly influenced by hermeticism and other prevailing currents of mysticism. In addition, his response to nature marks him out from his contemporaries and, in some respects, prefigures nineteenth-century romanticism. This is the most comprehensively annotated edition of Vaughan's complete poems yet to appear and, for the first time, makes a serious attempt to unravel the host of biblical allusions which suffuse his work. - Back cover.
0300026803 0300026870 (pbk.)
80053979
PR3740 / .A1 1981
821.4 / HEN 1976