SOURCE: "To Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist: Upon These and His Former Poems," in The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Vol. II, edited by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Blackburn, 1871, pp. 187-89.
Katherine Philips, who wrote under the pseudonym Orinda, was a seventeenth-century English poet whose work was highly regarded during her lifetime and by John Keats during the nineteenth century. She was hailed as "the matchless Orinda" by her contemporaries. In the following set of iambic pentameter couplets, which preface Olor Iscanus (1651), Orinda eloquently celebrates Vaughan's accomplishment as a poet.
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