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The Reformation · 1650, enlarged 1655
Silex Scintillans
Henry Vaughan · 1621–1695
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What it is
Poems of light, childhood, and the natural world, written in Wales after the death of a brother and the destruction of the church he loved.
Why it lasted
The most visionary of the metaphysical poets, and a direct influence on Wordsworth's sense of childhood as a lost brightness.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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