SOURCE: "Love Poetry," in Masques of God: Form and Theme in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972, pp. 65-84.
An Australian-born American scholar of English literature, Simmonds is also the editor of Milton Studies, a play-wright, and the author of an important study of Vaughan's accomplishment, Masques of God: Form and Theme in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan (1972). In this work, he declines to follow "the usual custom of treating the secular and sacred verse as separate categories; rather, he examines Vaughan's poetic, intellectual, and religious development and their "essentially organic, continuous, and natural" flow. In the following chapter from this work, Simmonds explores Vaughan's love poetry.
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