E. L. Doctorow
novelist, editor, professor (1931-2015)
Henry Vaughan
Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
Henry Vaughanwas a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655.
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Henry Vaughanwas a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655. In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished was published. Meanwhile he had been persuaded by reading the religious poet George Herbert to renounce “idle verse”. The prose Mount of Olives and Solitary Devotionsshow his authenticity and depth of convictions. Two more volumes of secular verse followed, ostensibly without his sanction, but it is his religious verse that has been acclaimed. He also translated short moral and religious works and two medical works in prose. In the 1650s he began a lifelong medical practice.
4 Quotes by Henry Vaughan
- 1.
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
Henry VaughanWelsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
Henry VaughanWelsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry VaughanWelsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
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Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
Henry VaughanWelsh author, physician and metaphysical poet