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Henry Vaughan and George Herbert
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This chapter discusses Vaughan’s major debt to George Herbert’s The Temple. It traces the gradual discovery of the extent of Herbert’s influence on Silex Scintillans and distinguishes acts of plagiarism from imitations, inert quotations, echoes, functional allusions and more unconscious manifestations of borrowing. Several examples of wholesale imitation of individual poems by Herbert are analysed and Vaughan’s habit of weaving multiple details from a wide range of poems by Herbert into a single poem of his own is demonstrated. The chapter ends by showing that Vaughan became less dependent on Herbert as a creative source in the second part of Silex Scintillans and invoked him in his later prose volumes as a pattern of holy life and a model of the true Christian poet.
Title: Henry Vaughan and George Herbert
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This chapter discusses Vaughan’s major debt to George Herbert’s The Temple.
It traces the gradual discovery of the extent of Herbert’s influence on Silex Scintillans and distinguishes acts of plagiarism from imitations, inert quotations, echoes, functional allusions and more unconscious manifestations of borrowing.
Several examples of wholesale imitation of individual poems by Herbert are analysed and Vaughan’s habit of weaving multiple details from a wide range of poems by Herbert into a single poem of his own is demonstrated.
The chapter ends by showing that Vaughan became less dependent on Herbert as a creative source in the second part of Silex Scintillans and invoked him in his later prose volumes as a pattern of holy life and a model of the true Christian poet.
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