Vaughan, Henry

George Herbert and Henry Vaughan (Oxford Standard Series)

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George Herbert and Henry Vaughan (Oxford Standard Series)
George Herbert , and Henry Vaughan
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
John Donne , Andrew Marvell , George Herbert , Henry Vaughan , Richard Crashaw , Francis Quarles , and Thomas Traherne
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486419169

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Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone and rich in striking, unusual imagery, metaphysical poetry is represented in this anthology by such masterpieces as "Death, Be Not Proud," by John Donne; Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," as well as works by George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, Thomas Traherne, and others.

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The bare text itself .......2005-04-26

Dover editions provide the basic poetic texts without serious and extended commentary. In a sense there is an advantage in this as it encourages the reader to engage the text, and seek understanding through reading and rereading. But there is also a great disadvantage especially when it comes to complicated poetry like that of the Metaphysicals whose complex linking of diverse images , whose intellectual toughness requires explanation.
Nonetheless there is great poetry here at the usual Dover very reasonable price.
As for the Metaphysicals themselves Donne is of course at the center. But there is also great poetry from Herbert and Marvell. This is a poetry in which the heart is very much in the mind, and one must have a strong intellect to understand.
I know the challenge and delight of this poetry, and also understand how many readers find it most fascinating and great.( As did T.S. Eliot)
But I nonetheless find my own heart and mind better expressed, reflected and uplifted in the Romantics (Wordsworth especially) who will come later.

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Not at Home in the World

Henry Vaughan (Oxford Poetry Library)
Henry Vaughan
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

ASIN: 0192823027

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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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Not at Home in the World.......2001-01-15

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.

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Henry William Vaughan
Manufacturer: R.G. Adams
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Poetry. Elegies and Hymns. (The Pocket University, Volume XV)

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Poetry. Elegies and Hymns. (The Pocket University, Volume XV)
James Shirley , Henry Vaughan , Thomas Gray , William Cullen Bryant , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Alfred Tennyson , Theodore O'Hara , Charles Wolfe , Sir Walter Scott , and Et Al
Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O7BGV6

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The Art of Town Planning
Henry Vaughan Lanchester
Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H48ATW

Secular poems (Essays and studies on English language and literature)

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Secular poems (Essays and studies on English language and literature)
Henry Vaughan
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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POEMS, AN ESSAY, TWO LETTERS.
Henry. Vaughan
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HFI99C

The Sacred Poems And Private Ejaculations Of Henry Vaughan

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The Sacred Poems And Private Ejaculations Of Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan , and H. F. Lyte
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Hermetic Physic: Or, the Right Way to Preserve & to Restore Health

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Hermetic Physic: Or, the Right Way to Preserve & to Restore Health
Henry Nollius
Manufacturer: Holmes Pub Grou Llc
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ASIN: 155818273X

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