Information AboutHenry Vaughan |
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| 1622 births | |
| 1695 deaths | |
| welsh doctors | |
| welsh poets | |
| anglo-welsh poets | |
| alumni of jesus college, oxford | |
| people of silurian descent | |
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Henry Vaughan ( April 17 , 1622 - April 28 , 1695 ) was a Welsh Metaphysical Poet and a doctor, the twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan . Vaughan was born, and lived for most of his life, in the village of Llansanffraid , near Brecon , where he is buried. During the English Civil War , he was a Royalist sympathiser. He took his literary inspiration from his native environment, calling himself a "Silurist" in homage to the Silures , the Celtic tribe of south Wales which resisted the Roman Invasion Of Britain . Vaughan's greatest verse appears in the collection ''Silex scintillans'', first published in 1650 . Henry Vaughan's poetry reflects his love of nature and Mysticism and influenced the work of Wordsworth , among others. Much of Vaughan's poetry has a particularly modern sound. This is an example of an especially beautiful fragment of one of his poems entitled The World: :I saw eternity the other night :Like a great ring of pure and endless light, :All calm as it was bright, :And round beneath it time in hours, days, years, :Driven by the spheres, :Like a vast shadow moved in which the world :And all her train were hurled. EXTERNAL LINKS
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