Vaughan, Henry | Further Reading
Further Reading
Alvarez, A. "The Poetry of Religious Experience: II. Henry Vaughan." In his The School of Donne, pp. 91-98. New York: Pantheon Books, 1961.
Examines Vaughan as a crafter of original "poetry of experience with devotional themes": poetry which "rises from a single, intense moment of perception and concerns the poet's reaction to the object, rather than the object itself."
Calhoun, Thomas O. Henry Vaughan: The Achievement of "Silex Scintillons". Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981, 265 p.
Examines Vaughan's accomplishment in Silex Scintillons, concluding that the "shocks, disjunctions, momentary victory, and extended disappointment" reflected in the constituent poems indicate Vaughan's acceptance not of order in the world, but orders: a splintered but coherent vision of Creation and Providential activity within it.
Clough, Wilson O....
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