“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.”
About Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695
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…