The Henry Vaughan Page

( 1622 - 1695 )
I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light.

Major Works
Penguin Classics publishes The Complete Poems, edited by Alan Rudrum. This volume was first published by Yale, 1981.
George Herbert and Henry Vaughan: A Critical Edition of the Major Works is a volume in The Oxford Standard Authors, 1986. It is edited by Louis L. Martz; it has an introduction, over 100 pages of notes, a selected glossary, and a further readings list.
Poems, With the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished ( 1646 ).
Silex Scintillans, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations ( 1650 ); 1652 ).
Olor Iscanus: Select Poems and Translations ( 1651 ).
The Mount of Olives; or, Solitary Devotions ( 1652 ).
On Contempt for the World ( 1654 ). Translation from Eucherius of Lyon.
Thalia Rediviva ( 1678 ).
Vaughan's Works. Edited by L. C. Martin. Oxford, 1914; 1957.
Four Poems On Line
Eleven Poems On Line

About Vaughan
F. E. Hutchinson, Vaughan: A Life and an Interpretation. Oxford, 1947.
Henry Vaughan At the Luminarium. Texts, chronology.
Vaughan Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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