Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses

by Philip West

It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198187564
• ISBN13: 9780198187561
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages