SOURCE: "Appendix C: Poetry and Mysticism," in On the Mystical Poetry of Henry Vaughan, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 123-38.
In the following excerpt, Durr illuminates the nature of the mystic experience and its relationship to reality, and offers high praise of Vaughan as one of the few individuals in human history who have possessed the faculties and genius to formulate the mystical vision of Reality "in words of poetic effect."
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