Henry Vaughan (Border Lines) |
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Stevie Davies
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Pages: 213 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1854111434
Pub: Seren Books
Pub date: 1995-05-11
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 667146
Reader Reviews:
The most concise and illuminating study (8/8 people found this helpful)
This is the most attractively written and illuminating study of Vaughan's poetry that I have read. It artfully weaves what we know of Vaughan's life into the fabric of the poems without devaluing them by any trace of reductionism. It both accounts for the intensity of his vision and its falling away in a credible and utterly helpful way. It also tries to answer how such a visionary poet can also be a man who towards the end of his life seemed in danger of being consumed by familial feuding!
The readings of individual poems show a great love for the material, a knowledge of its sources and do what all criticism should send you back with renewed and deepened enthusiasm for the poems themselves.
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Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> Historical -> 1501-1700
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Books -> Subjects -> Poetry, Drama & Criticism -> History & Criticism -> Poetry & Poets -> 16th to 18th Centuries
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