Divine Themes and Celestial Praise
Download or Read eBook Divine Themes and Celestial Praise PDF written by Henry Vaughan and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Henry Vaughan |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 88 |
| Release | : 2023-06-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780728303522 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0728303523 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Divine Themes and Celestial Praise by : Henry Vaughan
Book excerpt: SLG Press Contemplative Poetry 9 This book contains poems by Henry Vaughan, all of them selected from the 1655 edition of Silex Scintillans. Almost all are followed by a related poem from George Herbert’s 1633 collection, The Temple. For Vaughan, Herbert was that ‘blessed man, whose holy life and verse gained many pious Converts’: poets who wisely exchanged ‘vain and vicious subjects’ for ‘divine Themes and Celestial praise’. Vaughan thought of himself as ‘the least’ of those converts, but the poetry in Silex Scintillans shows him matching and even sometimes surpassing his master’s work.
