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NOTES TO PP. 195–207
10 For a fuller exploration of Herbert’s formalistic influence on Vaughan, see my Henry
Vaughan: The Unfolding Vision, ch. 4.
11 Quoted from Anthroposophia Theomagica in The Works of Thomas Vaughan, ed. Alan
Rudrum, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, p. 52. Important discussions of Vaughan’s
hermeticism date from Elizabeth Holmes’s Henry Vaughan and the Hermetic
Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 1932, and include several valuable articles by Alan
Rudrum: “The Influence of Alchemy in the Poems of Henry Vaughan,” Philological
Quarterly 49 (1970):469–80; and “An Aspect of Vaughan’s Hermeticism: The
Doctrine of Cosmic Sympathy,” Studies in English Literature 14 (1974):129–38. The
best general discussion of Vaughan and the pastoral belongs to Georgia B.
Christopher, “In Arcadia, Calvin…A Study of Nature in Henry Vaughan,” Studies
in Philology 70 (1973):408–26.
12 Harold Skulsky, “The Fellowship of the Mystery: Emergent and Exploratory Metaphor
in Vaughan,” Studies in English Literature 27 (1987):89–107.
13 Davies, Henry Vaughan, Glamorgan: Poetry Wales Press, 1995, p. 112.
14 John N.Wall, Transformations of the Word: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan, Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 1988, p. 301. The seminal article on the subject of
searching in Vaughan is by Louis Martz, “Henry Vaughan: The Man Within,” PMLA
78 (1963):40–9.
15 Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1992, especially ch. 2.
16 See, for example, Joseph H.Summers, “Some Apocalyptic Strains in Marvell’s
Poetry,” in Tercentenary Essays in Honor of Andrew Marvell, ed. Kenneth
Friedenreich, Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1977, 180–203.
17 For two recent studies comparing Vaughan’s apocalyptic thinking with that of
conservative and radical contemporaries, see, respectively, Claude J.Summers,
“Herrick, Vaughan, and the Poetry of Anglican Survivalism” in New Perspectives on
the Seventeenth Century English Religious Lyric, ed. John R.Roberts, Columbia, MO:
University of Missouri Press, 1994, pp. 46–74, and Nigel Smith, Literature and
Revolution in England, 1640–1660, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994, pp.
269–71. An exhaustive analysis of the subject appears in Philip West’s 1998
Cambridge University dissertation, Scripture Uses: Henry Vaughan’s “Silex Scintillans”
[1650, 1655] and its Contexts, ch. 6 (“Perfection Postponed”). Some of my remarks
are partially anticipated in Henry Vaughan: The Unfolding Vision, ch. 7.
18 George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, ed. Louis L.Martz, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1986, p. 504.
19 John Cook, King Charles his Case: Or an Appeal to all Rational Men, Concerning his
Tryal at the High Court of Justice, London, 1649, pp. 35–6. I owe this reference to
Thad Bower.
20 The Works of Henry Vaughan, p. 346.
21 F.E.Hutchinson, Henry Vaughan: A Life and Interpretation, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1947, pp. 124–5.
22 Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Secular Renunciation in Early
Christianity, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, pp. 193–5.
23 Two recent articles, from very different angles, will give the reader a spectrum of
interpretive possibilities elicited by this poem. See Graeme J.Watson, “The Temple
in The Night’: Henry Vaughan and the Collapse of the Established Church,” MP 84
(1986):144–61; and Geoffrey Hill, “A Pharisee to Pharisees: Reflections on
Vaughan’s ‘The Night,’” English 38 (1989):97–113.
24 Kermode, The Uses of Error, London: Collins, 1990, p. 431. See also his earlier
influential essay, “The Private Imagery of Henry Vaughan,” Review of English Studies,
n.s. 1 (1950):206–25.
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