Henry Vaughan, born on 17 April 1621 and buried on 23 April 1695, was one of the most distinctive English-language poets of the seventeenth century: a Welsh country gentleman, Royalist, medical practitioner, translator, religious writer, and visionary poet whose work transformed private devotion into startling images of light, landscape, childhood, death, and eternity. He is usually grouped with the metaphysical poet…
“He that writes idle books, makes for himself another body, in which he always lives, and sins—after death—as fast and as foul as ever he did in his life.”
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Welsh Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Spirituality, Longing
In the grand tapestry of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, few figures embody the complex intersection of political ambition and poetic genius quite like Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke. Born into privilege in 1554 and dying by violence in 1628, Greville's seventy-four years spanned some of the most transformative decades in English history and literature. He was a man who moved with equal facility through the tr…
“I know the world and believe in God.”
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Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Political Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Sorrow, Despair
