Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan
Born17 April 1621
Newton St Bridget, Brecknockshire, Wales
Died23 April 1695(1695-04-23) (aged 73–74)
Scethrog House, Llansantffraed, Brecknockshire, Wales
OccupationPoet
Period17th century
GenrePoetry
Notable worksSilex Scintillans
SpouseCatherine Vaughan, Elizabeth Vaughan
RelativesThomas Vaughan

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] In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished was published. Meanwhile he had been persuaded by reading the religious poet George Herbert to renounce "idle verse". The prose Mount of Olives and Solitary Devotions (1652) show his authenticity and depth of convictions. Two more volumes of secular verse followed, ostensibly without his sanction, but it is his religious verse that has been acclaimed. He also translated short moral and religious works and two medical works in prose. In the 1650s he began a lifelong medical practice.[2]

  1. ^ Oxford Companion to English Literature, s. v. Henry Vaughan.
  2. ^ Britannica. Retrieved 24 November 2018.