SOURCE: "Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695," in Four Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, second edition, Cambridge at the University Press, 1957, pp. 71-89.
Bennett was an English educator who wrote studies on the works of Virginia Woolf (1945) and George Eliot (1948). She is also the author of Four Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw (1934; revised 1953). In the following excerpt from that work, she offers a thematic overview of Vaughan's poetry, comparing it with that of Herbert.
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