SOURCE: "Henry Vaughan: 'I saw Eternity the other night'," in Poetry of Contemplation: John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and the Modern Period, State University of New York Press, 1990, pp. 129-72.
In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in a different form in Studia Mystica in 1987, Clements seeks "to clarify the question of mysticism in Vaughan's poetry and to illustrate the kind of study of individual poems necessary for determining the nature and extent of Vaughan's mysticism."
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