'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown
'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and
other mystics, that I find any adequate expression
of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and
my own existence that I experienced at that period.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
