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Vaughan, Henry (1622 - 1695)

Index to poems

  1. Christ's Nativity
  2. The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
  3. I Walk'd the Other Day
  4. The Morning-Watch
  5. Peace
  6. The Retreat
  7. The Revival
  8. The Star
  9. They are all Gone into the World of Light
  10. The Water-fall
  11. The World
Biography: 

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.

  • Rudrum, Alan. "Vaughan, Henry (1621–1695)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
Henry
Family Name: 
Vaughan
Birth Date: 
April 17, 1622
Death Date: 
April 23, 1695
Nationality: 
Welsh
Family Relations: 
brother : Thomas Vaughan
father : Thomas Vaughan
wife : Catherine Vaughan
daughter : Lucy Vaughan
daughter : Catherine Vaughan
daughter : Frances Vaughan
son : Thomas Vaughan
wife : Elizabeth Vaughan
daughter : Grizel Vaughan
daughter : Rachael Vaughan
son : Henry Vaughan

Education

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Commonwealth
Literary Movement: 
Metaphysical Poets
Buried At: 
St Bridget's churchyard, Llansaintffraed churchyard, Powys, Wales
First RPO Edition: 
1997