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Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was 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. [ 1 ]
The six motets consist of poems by British poets and a text from the Coverdale translation of the Psalter found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, set to music for unaccompanied choir. [1] "My soul, there is a country" Text by Henry Vaughan, set for SATB choir in G major "I know my soul hath power" Text by John Davies, set for SATB choir in B ...
The poet Abraham Cowley, in whose biography Samuel Johnson first named and described Metaphysical poetry. The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.
April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine (born 1621), French poet and fable writer; April 17 – Juana Inés de la Cruz (born 1651), self-taught Novohispanic scholar, nun, poet and writer; April 23 – Henry Vaughan (born 1621), Welsh metaphysical poet and physician; Also – Vaman Pandit (born 1608), Indian Marathi scholar and poet
Sassoon was a great admirer of the Welsh poet Henry Vaughan. On a visit to Wales in 1924, he made a pilgrimage to Vaughan's grave at Llansantffraed, Powys, and there wrote "At the Grave of Henry Vaughan", one of his better-known peacetime poems.
Henry Vaughan, Olor Iscanus: A collection of some select poems, and translations, includes four prose translations [1] Sir Henry Wotton , Reliquiae Wottonianae: Or, a collection of lives, letters, poems , poetry and prose, including "The Life of Sir Henry Wotton" by Izaak Walton ; posthumously published [ 1 ]
Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans: Sacred poems and private ejaculations, second edition (see also Silex Scintillans 1650) [2] Edmund Waller, A Panegyrick to my Lord Protector, on Oliver Cromwell [2] George Wither, The Protector, on Oliver Cromwell [2]
Robert Heath, Clarastella: Together with poems occasional, elegies, epigrams, satyrs [1] Andrew Marvell, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland; John Tatham, Ostella; or, The Faction of Love and Beauty Reconcil'd [1] Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans; or, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (see also Silex Scintillans 1655) [1]