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
Henry was a very well driven person. He used very persuasive techniques in his writings and speeches. He was a leader, he lead the state of Virginia through the first part of the war. He was a very outspoken man and he always put others before him.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in The Vicarage, in Down Ampney, on October 12, 1872 to Arthur and Margaret Vaughan Williams. Ralph’s father; Arthur was the vicar of the All Saints Church in Down Ampney in 1868. Through his mothers side Ralph had two famous great-great-grand fathers; Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the pottery at Stoke-on-Trent, and Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin. In 1875 Ralph’s father suddenly died, when he was only two years old. His mother moved him and his two siblings to the Wedgwood family home: Leith Hill Place, in Surrey.
King Henry VIII is considerable the most controversial monarch Great Britain has ever had. He is commonly known for his ill-advised decisions, six wives, and splitting Great Britain from the Catholic Church to create the Church of England. King Henry VIII of England’s determination to guarantee his family line’s continuation in the throne caused many problems, such as religious tensions, economic hardships, and political adversaries that continued one long after his death.
At the age of just two years old Henry was named Constable of Dover Castle, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. When he was three years old, he was created the Duke of York. As a child Henry VIII was an all around, well mannered, respectful child. His parents were Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and he was their second son. His siblings consisted of Arthur (1486-1502), Margaret (1489-1541), and Mary (1496-1533).
Henry was said to be charming, handsome and full of life. He loved music, so much that when he was only ten years old he could play many instruments including the Fife, Harp, Viola, and drums. He was also very smart. He could speak French, Latin, and a bit of Spanish. He loved Hunting. His favorite sports were hunting ,of course, and wrestling.
As for his family life his wife Deborah Read which he married in 1730. She also died in 1744, while he was in France. They had two children Francis (who died of smallpox at a young age) and Sarah. He was a strong Christian and believed in the power of Providence. He believed that the only duty was to serve man and him. He also believed that religion was worthless unless it was promoting virtuous behavior and he was a firm believer in work-earned
the first of his six marriages. Henry was a good looking man and was an
King Henry VIII of England and Ireland, third child and second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on June 28, 1491. Henry VIII was born, like all other monarchs except Henry VII, at Greenwich Palace. His two brothers, Prince Arthur and Edmond, Duke of Somerst, and of his two sisters died before their father. Henry VIII was the only son. Margaret Tudor and Mary Tudor were the only daughters to survive. It is said the King Henry was destined for the church and that his powers were thrust upon him. He was the first monarch, English monarch, to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance. Henry was an accomplished scholar, musician, and athlete. With the death of his brother, Arthur, and the death of his father, Henry VIII toke the throne.
	Henry IV was born in April 1367 and was the only son of John of Gaunt, the son of Edward III, and Blanche, the daughter of Henry Grismond, Duke of Lancaster. Known as Henry of Bolingbroke after his birthplace in Lincolnshire, he was made a knight of the Garter in 1377. In 1380, at the age of 13, he married Mary de Bohun, the youngest daughter and coheiress of Humphrey, the last Earl of Hereford. They had four sons and two daughters before her death at the age of 24, in 1394. As the Earl of Darby, Henry entered the House of Lords in 1385. In 1387 he supported his uncle Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, in his opposition to Richard II. (Gloucester was also Richard’s uncle, and Henry was the King’s First cousin.)
Andrew Marvell was born March 31st, 1621 in yorkshire, England. Becasue he was the son of an Anglican preist, Marvell grew up in an extremely Godly Home. He got his prmary education at Hull Grammar school. At only the age of twelve, he attended Trinity College at Cambridge University. Marvell traveled to Europe, where he was given the role of tutoring the daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax. Marvell wrote mostly lyrics poems. That helped build careers of other poets that had similar writing ideas. In 1659, he decided to drift away from poetry and ofcus on his political career. From there, he served the consitituency of Hull in Parliment until he died in 1678.
Robert Frost is very successful poet from the 20th century, as well as a four time Pulitzer Prize winner. Robert Frost work was originally published in England and later would be published in the US. He was also considered one of the most popular and respected poets of his century. Robert Frost created countless of poems and plays, many of them containing similar themes. Some of the most popular themes found in his poems encompass isolation, death and everyday life.
Born in Anjou, to Geoffrey of Anjou, (Plantagenet), the most powerful Duque of Central France, and Matilda (daughter of the King of England), Henry was also known as Plantagenet, since his father Geoffrey, got the nickname because he liked to sport a sprig on his helmet; coining the Plantagenet surname of one of England's greatest dynasties, which ruled to the end of the medieval era.
On June 17th 1781, he married Dorothy Plackett. During this time, he would study, serve as pastor to two very small Baptist churches, and he continued to make shoes. These few years helped develop his philosophy of missions and it first happened when he read Captain Cook's Voyages.
England's most talented and well know poet and dramatist was born on April 23, 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, located in the cetre of England. His father, John, was a glove-maker and wool dealer involved with money lending. His mother Mary Arden was the daughter of a Farmer. William was the third out of eight children whom all died young. His father became Mayor in 1568, after serving on the town council for many years.
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