Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, who wrote in English. He is chiefly known for the religious poetry contained in Silex Scintillans, published in 1650, with a second part published in 1655.
Musical settings:
Several poems by Vaughan from Silex Scintillans have been set to music, including:
- "The Evening-Watch" was used in "The Evening-Watch: Dialogue between Body and Soul" by Gustav Holst (1924).
- The Eucharistic poem "Welcome, sweet and sacred feast" was set by Gerald Finzi as the anthem Welcome, sweet and sacred feast, from Three anthems, Op. 27 (1953).
- Peace was set as the first of Hubert Parry's Songs of Farewell (1916–18), "My soul, there is a country".
Works:
- Poems with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished (1646)
- Olor Iscanus (1647)
- Silex Scintillans (1650 and 1655)
- Mount of Olives, or Solitary Devotions (1652)
- Flores Solitudinis (1654)
- Hermetical Physics (1655), translated from the Latin of Henry Nollius
- The Chymists Key (1657), translated from the Latin of Henry Nollius
- Several translations from the Latin contributed to Thomas Powell's Humane Industry (1661)
- Thalia Rediviva (1678), a joint collection of poetry with his brother Thomas Vaughan, after Thomas's death
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