SOURCE: "Important Characteristics of Vaughan's Style," in Henry Vaughan, Twayne Publishers, 1978, pp. 31-45.
Friedenreich was an American educator who published essays on various English poets and dramatists, including Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, William Shakespeare, among others. In the following excerpt from his monograph on Vaughan, he examines key characteristics of Vaughan's style, paying particular attention to the influence of the poet's Welsh heritage, the Bible, and Hermetic philosophy.
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