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... Vaughan's idea that truth is a light which breaks through darkness . But it is important to add that the poetic importance of hermeticism in Vaughan's work is easily exaggerated . He is not an intel- lectual poet and his fundamental ...
... Vaughan's idea that truth is a light which breaks through darkness . But it is important to add that the poetic importance of hermeticism in Vaughan's work is easily exaggerated . He is not an intel- lectual poet and his fundamental ...
Page 51
... Vaughan , by definition , will show little interest in the ethical . It should be added that his poems also show ... Vaughan's type of religious lyric as the expression of frustration with the whole world of seventeenth - century ...
... Vaughan , by definition , will show little interest in the ethical . It should be added that his poems also show ... Vaughan's type of religious lyric as the expression of frustration with the whole world of seventeenth - century ...
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... Vaughan's main weakness is perhaps glibness . His consistent and seem- ingly firm convictions about the worthlessness of the material world and the desirability of union with his God reduce the likelihood of any real ten- sion in his ...
... Vaughan's main weakness is perhaps glibness . His consistent and seem- ingly firm convictions about the worthlessness of the material world and the desirability of union with his God reduce the likelihood of any real ten- sion in his ...
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