SOURCE: "The Mysticism of Henry Vaughan: A Reply," in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. LIII, No. 3, July, 1954, pp. 352-60.
In the following excerpt, Oliver takes issue with Frank Kermode's 1950 essay on Vaughan, contending that "Vaughan makes a mystic's use of the poet's language." (Kermode had held that Vaughan "is from the beginning a poet with his roots in poetry rather than in religious experience….")
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