Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses

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It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is shot through and fired by the Bible as it was read in the "Godly nation" of the mid-seventeenth century.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198187564

ISBN13:9780198187561

Release Date:September 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:288 Pages

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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