Henry Vaughan Research Paper

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Jar’Mar Moore
Mrs. Lucas
English 435, 1st Hour
22 April 2014
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan was a great poet because of his style. His first writings included love, religion and life experiences. He introduced poetry in a metaphysical way.
Henry Vaughan was Born on April 17, 1621.n his early childhood he lived in Brecknockshire which is a small village. He spent most of his life in Liansantffraed. This place is also where he was buried. He had a powerful family because his grandfather owned the Tretower Court. Also one half of his family catholic the other was Protestant.
His parents were named Thomas Vaughan and Denis Vaughan. Henry also had a brother named Thomas Vaughan II. His brother was known for being an Alchemist and a hermetic Philosopher. What Alchemists was known for was creating transmutations, which are the changing of elements to another. A famous example of this is turning silver into gold.
A hermetic philosopher is mixing religious and philosophical traditions that were mainly based upon psudepigraphical writings and Hermes Trismegistus. As a child Rev.Matthew Herbert, the rector of Llangattock for about six years, schooled both him and his twin locally. He began college at 17 in 1938. He attended Jesus College in Oxford England but his family made him wants to pursue a career in law so he stopped trying to get an oxford degree.
As he was growing up a civil war broke out. He was ordered back to London at first to serve as a secretary under Sir Marmaduke Lloyd. Once he tried to continue seeking a career in law a chief justice on the circuit of Brecknockshire and Military kept interrupting his studies so when he finally returned he began to practice medicine. He became married in 1646 to Catherine Wise. He had 4 child...

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... to his meanings. He promoted no special method of reading his works.
In the case of many great writers and poets, Henry Vaughan was less popular during his lifetime than after his death on April 23, 1695. He lived to be age 73 and was buried in the churchyard of St Bride's, Llansantffraed, and Powys. He is recognized still as another example of a poet who can write both graceful and effective prose and influenced the work of poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson and Siegfried Sassoon. The American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick even named Vaughan as a key influence.
In conclusion Henry Vaughan didn’t do anything that changed how we read poetry in general but he perfected George Herbert’s style of using monosyllables, long-drawn alliterations. This had led writers suck as The Man in the High Castle, which lead him to winning a Hugo Award for best Novel in 1963

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