SOURCE: "Henry Vaughan: The Caves of Memory," in The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne, and Milton, Yale University Press, 1964, pp. 1-31.
Martz is an American educator and prominent scholar of English and American poetry. In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in PMLA in 1963, he examines Vaughan's poetry in the first edition of Silex Scintillans finding it to reflect the Augustinian concept of in terior "illumination."
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