Henry Vaughan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Vaughan

Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1621

Place of Birth: Llansantffraed, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Apr-1695

Profession: writer, physician, poet, economist, artist

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Henry Vaughan

  • Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, who wrote in English.
  • He is chiefly known for the religious poetry contained in Silex Scintillans, published in 1650, with a second part published in 1655.
  • In 1646 his poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished, were published, followed by a second volume in 1647.
  • Meanwhile, he had been "converted" by reading the religious poet George Herbert and gave up "idle verse".
  • The prose 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 followed, ostensibly without his sanction, but it is his religious verse that has become acclaimed.
  • He also translated short moral and religious works and two medical works in prose.
  • At some time in the 1650s he began to practise medicine and continued to do so through his life.

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