SOURCE: "Henry Vaughan," in The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne, 1934. Reprint by Russell & Russell, 1963, pp. 145-87.
An English educator and translator, Leishman was the author of The Metaphysical Poets (1934) and Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets (1961). In the following excerpt from a reprint edition of the former, he surveys Vaughan's poetry and highlights several key thematic characteristics.
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