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         Vaughan Henry:     more books (100)
  1. The Almighty Wall: The Architecture of Henry Vaughan (Architectural History Foundation Book) by William Morgan, 1982-05-23
  2. Henry Vaughan (Oxford Poetry Library) by Henry Vaughan, 1995-06-01
  3. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan, 2010-07-06
  4. Complete Poetry of Henry Vaughan, The (Norton Library) by Henry / French Fogle, ed. Vaughan, 1969-01-01
  5. The works of Henry Vaughan by Henry Vaughan, Northrop Frye, et all 2010-08-27
  6. Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry (Leaders in Action Series) by David J. Vaughan, 1997
  7. The works of Henry Vaughan, Silurist by Henry Vaughan, 1983
  8. The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan by Henry Francis Lyte, Henry Vaughan, 2010-01-11
  9. George Herbert and Henry Vaughan (Oxford Authors) by George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, 1986-07-24
  10. The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Henry Vaughan, 1995-12-01
  11. Henry Vaughan: The Unfolding Vision by Jonathan F. S. Post, 1983-03
  12. Henry Vaughan: Experience and the tradition by Ross Garner, 1967
  13. On the mystical poetry of Henry Vaughan by R. A Durr, 1962
  14. Masques of God: Form and Theme in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan, by James D. Simmonds, 1972-04

1. Henry Vaughan - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1622 April 28, 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet and a Doctor. Vaughan was born to Thomas Vaughan (son of writer and colonial
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Jump to: navigation search For other persons named Henry Vaughan, see Henry Vaughan (disambiguation) Henry Vaughan April 17 April 28 ) was a Welsh metaphysical poet and a Doctor. Vaughan was born to Thomas Vaughan (son of writer and colonial investor William Vaughan ) and Denise Morgan in at 'Trenewydd', Newton , in Breconshire Wales . He spent most of his life in the village of Llansantffraed , near Brecon , where he is also buried. Vaughan had a twin brother, the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan
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Both Henry and his twin Thomas were schooled locally by the Rector of Llangattock , the Rev. Matthew Herbert. Their education with Herbert proceeded for six years preceding their attendance at Jesus College, Oxford in . However, around Vaughan's family agreed that law would be a career of great promise for Henry. It appears as though Vaughan complied with no resistance (Calhoun, 39). He never took his Oxford degree, entering the law instead.
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2. Henry Vaughan -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Henry Vaughan AngloWelsh poet and mystic remarkable for the range and intensity of his spiritual intuitions.
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born April 17, 1622, Llansantffraed, Breconshire, Wales died April 23, 1695, Llansantffraed Anglo-Welsh poet and mystic remarkable for the range and intensity of his spiritual intuitions. Educated at Oxford and studying law in London, Vaughan was recalled home in 1642 when the first Civil War broke out, and he remained there the rest of his life. In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished George Herbert Silex Scintillans Mount of Olives: or, Solitary Devotions (1652) show the depth of his religious convictions and the authenticity of his poetic genius. Two more volumes of secular verse were published, ostensibly without his sanction; but it is his religious verse that has lived. He also translated short moral and religious works and two medical works in prose. At some time in the 1650s he began to practice medicine and continued to do so throughout his life. I saw Eternity the other night Like a Great Ring of pure and endless light Works (1914; 2nd ed., 1957), edited by L.C. Martin.

3. Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan, called the Silurist , WelshEnglish poet and mystic, was born of an ancient Welsh family at Newton St. Briget near Scethrog by Usk,
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Executive summary: Silex Scintillans Henry Vaughan, called the "Silurist", Welsh-English poet and mystic, was born of an ancient Welsh family at Newton St. Briget near Scethrog by Usk, Brecknockshire, on the 17th of April 1622. His grandfather, Thomas Vaughan, was the son of Charles Vaughan of Tretower Castle, and had acquired the farm of Newton by marriage. From 1632 to 1638 he and his twin brother Thomas Vaughan were privately educated by the Rev. Matthew Herbert, rector of Llangattock, to whom they both addressed Latin verses expressing their gratitude. , who is the main authority for Vaughan's biography, says that Henry was entered at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1638, but no corroboration of the statement is forthcoming, although Thomas Vaughan's matriculation is entered, nor does Henry Vaughan ever allude to residence at the university. He was sent to London to study law, but turning his attention to medicine, he became a physician, and settled first at Brecon and later at Scethrog to the practice of his art. He was regarded, says Wood, as an "ingenious person, but proud and humorous." It seems likely that he fought on the king's side in the Welsh campaign of 1645, and was present at the battle of Rowton Heath. In 1646 appeared

4. Vaughan
Henry Vaughan is buried in the churchyard of St Bridget s Church, Llansantffraed, Powys, Wales. His tombstone is located outside the east wall of the church
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Henry Vaughan is buried in the churchyard of St Bridget's Church, Llansantffraed, Powys, Wales. His tombstone is located outside the east wall of the church and bears a Latin inscription which he composed. The church, located on the banks of the River Usk, was rebuilt in the 19th century. (See map...ref no. 18) Vaughan began writing secular poems but following a religious conversion turned his attention to devotional verse. He attributed his conversion largely to reading the work of George Herbert . In 1650 Vaughan published his best known collection Silex Scintillans. This featured a mystical philosophy influenced by the hermeticism of his twin brother Thomas who was a philospher and a practicising alchemist. On the title page of the collection Vaughan refers to himself as a 'Silurist' - a name taken from the Silures tribe who inhabited the Brecon Beacons at the time of the Roman invasion.

5. Henry Vaughan - Wicipedia
Ganed ef a i efaill, yr athronydd Thomas Vaughan, yn Nhrenewydd, Sir Frycheiniog. Bu n fyfyriwr yng Ngholeg Yr Iesu, Rhydychen, er na raddiodd yno,
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Neidio i: llywio chwilio Bardd metaffisegol oedd Henry Vaughan 17 Ebrill 28 Ebrill Ganed ef a'i efaill, yr athronydd Thomas Vaughan , yn Nhrenewydd Sir Frycheiniog . Bu'n fyfyriwr yng Ngholeg Yr Iesu, Rhydychen , er na raddiodd yno, a bu'n astudio'r gyfraith am gyfnod yn Llundain cyn cael ei alw adref ar ddechrau'r Rhyfelau Cartref . Roedd yn cefnogi'r blaid frenhinol yn ystod y Rhyfelau Cartref. Cafodd droedigaeth grefyddol tua'r flwyddyn o dan ddylanwad George Herbert . Bu'n darllen llyfrau defosiynol a gweithiau ar athroniaeth gudd a chyfrin . Dechreuodd weithio fel meddyg. Ysgrifennodd Katherine Philips gerdd iddo. Bu farw yn ac fe'i gladdwyd yn Llansantffraid , Sir Frycheiniog.
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6. Henry Vaughan - LoveToKnow 1911
HENRY VAUGHAN (16221695), called the Silurist, English poet and mystic, was born of an ancient Welsh family at Newton St Briget near Scethrog by Usk,
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HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695), called the "Silurist," English poet and mystic, was born of an ancient Welsh family at Newton St Briget near Scethrog by Usk , Brecknockshire, on the 17th of April 1622. His grandfather, Thomas Vaughan , was the son of Charles Vaughan of Tretower Castle , and had acquired the farm of Newton by marriage. From 1632 to 1638 he and his twin brother Thomas , noticed below, were privately educated by the Rev. Matthew Herbert rector of Llangattock, to whom they both addressed Latin verses expressing their gratitude. Anthony a Wood, who is the main authority for Vaughan's biography, says that Henry was entered at Jesus College, Oxford , in 1638, but no corroboration of the statement is forthcoming, although Thomas Vaughan's matriculation is entered, nor does Henry Vaughan ever allude to residence at the university.' He was sent to London to study law, but turning his attention to medicine , he became a physician, and settled first at Brecon and later at Scethrog to the practice of his art. He was regarded, says Wood, as an "ingenious person, but proud and humorous." It seems likely that he fought on the king's side in the Welsh campaign of 1645, and was present at the battle of Rowton Heath . In 1646 appeared Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of

7. Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan was born at Newtonupon-Usk in Brecknockshire, Wales, the twin brother of the celebrated alchemist Thomas Vaughan. Both he and his brother
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Henry Vaughan was born at Newton-upon-Usk in Brecknockshire, Wales, the twin brother of the celebrated alchemist Thomas Vaughan. Both he and his brother attended Jesus College, Oxford but Henry left without taking a degree to study Law in London. His studies were disrupted by the Civil War, however, and he returned to Wales to practise as a doctor. Vaughan published his first work, Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished in 1646, followed by Olor Iscamus The Swan of Usk ) in 1651. His most memorable poetry is contained in his Silex Scintillans The Gleaming Flint ), a collection of meditative and religious poems which convey the depth of his faith and the sadness of lost innocence: "O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient track". His final work Thalia Rediviva , published in 1678, somewhat lacks his earlier sensitivity. He also produced a number of prose works on religious and medieval themes. Henry Vaughan was proud of his Welsh origins and liked to be known as the Silurist after the Silures, one of the ancient British tribes which formerly inhabited Brecknockshire. The Retreat
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8. History Of Computing At Cornell - Henry G. (Hank) Vaughan
Henry G. (Hank) Vaughan Recollections, 1971 1977. Background Let me start this interview with a different perspective than discussing administrative
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Background: Let me start this interview with a different perspective than discussing administrative computing, per se. That was only a part of my responsibilities at Cornell. My job was actually much broader than just overseeing the use of computers for administrative purposes. In the late 60s Cornell quietly hired McKinsey and Co. to make an analysis of how the University might begin to better manage itself, although "management" was (and is) a bad word in research universities like Cornell. One of the consultant's recommendations was that Cornell should create a vice-presidential level position to oversee the definition and development of an appropriate Management Information System [MIS]. Cornell apparently decided that it would be too controversial and expensive to exactly follow the consultant's recommendation. Instead, they decided to create a lesser "Director" position, reporting to the Vice President for Administration, and began conducting a national search for applicants with relevant experience. Subsequently I was told that I had been one of about 400 people who had responded to blind ads that appeared in both the NY Times and the Washington Post during the spring of 1970. The Cornell Hiring Process:
About six months later, and after two visits to campus involving interviews with sixty-one different people, I was hired into the new position called "Director of Management Systems and Analysis". The University's direction to me was to take control of the existing administrative computing resources (and an existing separate Institutional Research Department), to define and start to develop a management information system, and to serve as an internal consultant to the University's Executive Staff.

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10. Henry Vaughan@Everything2.com
Henry Vaughan, 16211695, was the last poetic voice of an era espousing the doctrine of mystic correspondence, which was every bit as groovy as it sounds.
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11. Henry Vaughan - Poems, Biography, Quotes
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12. Henry Vaughan - Wikiquote
Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1622 April 28, 1695) was a Welsh Metaphysical poet and a doctor, the twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan.
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  • Dear Night! this world's defeat;
    The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb;
    The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat
    Which none disturb!
    Christ's progress, and His prayer-time;
    The hours to which high Heaven doth chime.
    • The Night , l. 25 There is in God, some say,
      A deep but dazzling darkness.
      • The Night , l. 49 Happy those early days, when I
        Shined in my angel-infancy!
        Before I understood this place
        Appointed for my second race.
        • The Retreat , l. 1 But felt through all this fleshly dress
          Bright shoots of everlastingness.
          • The Retreat , l. 19 Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move.
            • The Retreat , l. 29 I cannot reach it, and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity.
              • Childhood I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years

13. JSTOR Cornelius Agrippa And Henry Vaughan
CORNELIUS AGRIPPA AND HENRY vaughan henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, soldier, physician, and reputed magician (14861535), is known to have exerted a
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14. Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan. The Retreate; The Showre; Man; Peace. Soundings Index. The Retreate Happy those early dayes! when I Shin d in my Angellinfancy.
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    The Showre

    'Twas so, I saw thy birth: That drowsie Lake From her faint bosome breath'd thee, the disease Of her sick waters, and Infectious Ease. But, now at Even Too grosse for heaven, Thou fall'st in teares, and weep'st for thy mistake. Ah! It is so with me; oft have I prest Heaven with a lazie breath, but fruitles this Peirc'd not; Love only can with quick accesse Unlock the way, When all else stray The smoke, and Exhalations of the brest. Yet, if as thou doest melt, and with thy traine Of drops make soft the Earth, my eyes could weep O'er my hard heart, that's bound up, and asleep, Perhaps at last (Some such showres past,) My God would give a Sun-shine after raine.
    Man

    Peace

    My Soul, there is a Countrie Far beyond the stars, Where stands a winged Centrie All skilfull in the wars, There above noise, and dnager Sweet peace sits crown'd with smiles, And one born in a Manger Commands the Beauteous files, He is they gracious friend, And (O my Soul awake!) Did in pure love descend To die her for thy sake, If thou canst get but thither, There growes the flowre of peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortresse, and thy ease; Leave them thy foolish ranges; For none can thee secure, But one, who never changes, Thy God, thy life, they Cure.
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15. Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan (1621 April 28, 1695) was a Welsh Metaphysical poet and a doctor, the twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan.
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Henry Vaughan (1621 - April 28, 1695) was a Welsh Metaphysical poet and a doctor, the twin brother of the philosopher Thomas Vaughan. Vaughan was born, and lived for most of his life, in the village of Llansanffraid, near Brecon, where he is buried. During the English Civil War, he was a Royalist sympathiser. He took his literary inspiration from his native environment, calling himself a "Silurist" in homage to the Silures, the Celtic tribe of south Wales which resisted the Roman invasion of Britain. Vaughan's greatest verse appears in the collection Silex scintillans, first published in 1650. Henry Vaughan's poetry reflects his love of nature and mysticism and influenced the work of Wordsworth, among others. Much of Vaughan's poetry has a particularly modern sound. This is an example of an especially beautiful fragment of one of his poems entitled
The World: I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light

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sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?t=henry+vaughan Silex Scintillans Subject, Vaughan, Henry, 1622 - 1695. Silex Scintillans
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17. THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE - Henry Vaughan
HENRY VAUGHAN. 16211695. 372 The Retreat. HAPPY those early days, when I Shin’d in my Angel-infancy! Before I understood this place
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The Retreat
HAPPY those early days, when I
Before I understood this place
Appointed for my second race,
Or taught my soul to fancy aught
But a white celestial thought:
A mile or two from my first Love,
Could see a glimpse of His bright face:
My gazing soul would dwell an hour,
And in those weaker glories spy
Some shadows of eternity:
Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient track! That I might once more reach that plain Where first I left my glorious train; That shady City of Palm-trees. But ah! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.
Peace
MY soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, All skilful in the wars: There, above noise and danger

18. Selected Works Of Henry Vaughan.
vaughan s metaphysical poetry and religious poems, in the vein of George Herbert and John Donne.
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Texts [O Lord, the hope of Israel]

The Dedication

[Vain Wits and Eyes]
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The True Christmas

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19. Henry Vaughan — Poet Seers
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View: Henry Vaughan Poems Henry Vaughan was born in 1622 in Breconshire, Wales to Thomas Vaughan and Denise Morgan. Entering Oxford University in 1638 where he studied with his twin brother Thomas followed his Welsh childhood. In 1640 he left Oxford to study law in London for two years. It was also in London that he started his poetic apprenticeship at the Inns of Court. In 1642 he returned back to Breconshire at the onset of a Civil War. It is here that he served as secretary to the Circuit Chief Justice of the Great Sessions until 1645. At that time he joined the company of soldiers who fought for King Charles's cause with Sir Herbert Price at Chester. By 1646 it is assumed he married Catherine Wise with whom he was to have a son and three daughters.   Before 1650 Vaughan's poetry was mostly secular but in the period of 1650 and the years spanning there after his poetry turned toward spiritual issues and he became known as a mystical writer. The mysticism and Neoplatonism of Vaughn's best known collection of poems, Silex Scintillans or The Fiery Flint link him to the metaphysical tradition of

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vaughan, henry (vôn) key, 1622–95, one of the English metaphysical poets. Born in Breconshire, Wales, he signed himself Silurist, after the ancient
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    Vaughan, Henry key , one of the English metaphysical poets . Born in Breconshire, Wales, he signed himself Silurist, after the ancient inhabitants of that region. After leaving Oxford, where he did not take a degree, he turned to the study of law. Later he switched to medicine and spent his life as a highly respected physician. His greatest poetry is contained in Silex Scintillans Herbert , where Herbert celebrates the institution of the Church, Vaughan is more interested in natural objects and in a mystical communion with nature. Vaughan's other works include

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