RPO -- Selected Poetry of Henry Vaughan (1622?-1695)

Selected Poetry of Henry Vaughan (1622?-1695)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright
(The World, 1-3)

Notes on Life and Works

The poems by Vaughan printed here are from Silex Scintillans ("Sparkling Flint") 1655, but all except "The Star," "They are all gone into the world of Light," and "The Water-Fall" were first published in a 1650 edition of Silex Scintillans to which a second part was added in 1655.

Biographical information

Given name: Henry
Family name: Vaughan
Birth date: 17 April 1622?
Death date: 23 April 1695
Nationality: Welsh
Family relations
father: Thomas Vaughan
wife: Catherine Vaughan
wife: Elizabeth Vaughan
brother: Thomas Vaughan
son: Henry Vaughan
son: Thomas Vaughan
daughter: Catherine Vaughan
daughter: Frances Vaughan
daughter: Grizel Vaughan
daughter: Lucy Vaughan
daughter: Lucy Vaughan
daughter: Rachael Vaughan
Education: Jesus College, Oxford: 1638
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Occupation: Physician
Residences
London
Newton-by-Usk, Llansaintffraed, Brecknockshire: 1622
Buried at: Llansaintffraed churchyard
First RPO edition: 1997