Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum

394 Pages·2004·1.7 MB·English

by  Donald R. Dickson

Of Paradise and Light:
Essays on Henry Vaughan
and John Milton in Honor
of Alan Rudrum
Donald R. Dickson
Holly Faith Nelson
Editors
University of Delaware Press
Of Paradise and Light
Frontispiece, Alan Rudrum. Ron Long, Simon Fraser Univer-
sity photographer
Of Paradise and Light
Essays on Henry Vaughan and John
Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum
Edited by
Donald R. Dickson and
Holly Faith Nelson
Newark: University of Delaware Press
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Of paradise and light : essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in honor
of Alan Rudrum / edited by Donald R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87413-876-0 (alk. paper)
1. Vaughan, Henry, 1621–1695—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Milton,
John, 1608–1674—Criticism and interpretation. 3. English poetry—Early
modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 4. Christian poetry, English—
History and criticism. 5. Vaughan, Henry, 1621–1695—Religion. 6. Milton,
John, 1608–1674—Religion. 7. Rudrum, Alan. I. Dickson, Donald R. II.
Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966–
PR3744.O38 2004
821′.409—dc22
2004002536
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Contents
List of Illustrations 7
Introduction 11
DONALD R. DICKSON AND HOLLY FAITH NELSON
Civil War Cleavage: More Force than Fashion in
Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans 25
JONATHAN F. S. POST
The “true, practic piety” of “holy writing”: Henry
Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Christoper Harvey and
The Temple 50
ROBERT WILCHER
Milton’s Jarring Allusions 71
JOHN LEONARD
Milton and the Index 101
NIGEL SMITH
Raphael, Diodati 123
KAREN L. EDWARDS
Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation, and Trial
in Paradise Regained 142
N. H. KEEBLE
Biblical Structures in Silex Scintillans: The Poetics and
Politics of Intertextuality 165
HOLLY FAITH NELSON
Boethius and Henry Vaughan: The Consolatio
Translations of Olor Iscanus 192
JONATHAN NAUMAN
The Mount of Olives: Vaughan’s Book of Private Prayer 202
DONALD R. DICKSON
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Henry Vaughan, Orpheus, and The Empowerment of
Poetry 218
PETER THOMAS
“Winged and free”: Henry Vaughan’s Birds 250
GLYN PURSGLOVE
Water, Wood, and Stone: The Living Earth in Poems
of Vaughan and Milton 269
DIANE KELSEY MCCOLLEY
Time and the Word: A Reading of Henry Vaughan’s
“The Search” 292
MATTHIAS BAUER
Henry Vaughan’s Poems of Mourning 309
ALAN RUDRUM
Lark, Wild Thyme, Crowing Cock, and Waterfall:
The Natural, the Moral, and the Political in Blake’s
Milton and Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans 329
JUNE STURROCK
Principal Publications of Alan Rudrum 351
Consolidated Bibliography 357
Contributors 377
Index 381
Illustrations
Frontispiece Alan Rudrum, Ron Long, Simon Fraser
University Photographer
Titian, Salome (ca. 1512–15) Galleria Doria, Rome 29
Reni, Salome with the Head of the Baptist (1639)
Galleria Nazionale, Rome 30
Title page of Henry Vaughan’s Olor Iscanus (1651) 220
Celtic Warrior from John Speed’s History of Great
Britain (1611) 222
Title page of Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans (1650) 241
Tombstone in Llansantffraed Churchyard 245
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