Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-375) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Donald R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson -- Civil War cleavage : more force than fashion in Vaughan's Silex scintillans / Jonathan F.S. Post -- The "true, practic piety" of "holy writing" : Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Christoper Harvey and The temple / Robert Wilcher -- Milton's jarring allusions / John Leonard -- Milton and the index / Nigel Smith -- Raphael, Diodati / Karen L. Edwards -- Wilderness exercises : adversity, temptation, and trial in Paradise regained / N.H. Keeble -- Biblical structures in Silex scintillans : the poetics and politics of intertextuality / Holly Faith Nelson -- Boethius and Henry Vaughan : the Consolatio translations of Olor Iscanus / Jonathan Nauman -- The Mount of Olives : Vaughan's book of private prayer / Donald R. Dickson -- Henry Vaughan, Orpheus, and the empowerment of poetry / Peter Thomas -- "Winged and free" : Henry Vaughan's Birds / Glyn Pursglove -- Water, wood, and stone : the living earth in poems of Vaughan and Milton / Diane Kelsey McColley -- Time and the word : a reading of Henry Vaughan's "The Search" / Matthias Bauer -- Henry Vaughan's Poems of Mourning / Alan Rudrum -- Lark, wild thyme, crowing cock, and waterfall : the natural, the moral, and the political in Blake's Milton and Vaughan's Silex scintillans / June Sturrock.
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