Masques of God: Form and Theme in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan

Amoret archetypal basic bed-grave image Ben Jonson Catherine Wise central chapter Christian Church conception couplets creatures critics dark death di Henry divine Donne doth E. L. Marilla Etesia poems experience expressed faith figure glory God's H. F. Lyte hath heaven Henry Vaughan Hermetic Hermeticism Hutchinson ideal imagery Interpretation John Donne Jonson Katherine Philips language lines lover Martin meaning meditation metaphor Metaphysical Poets mind moral motion Mount of Olives Nature Neoplatonic night Northrop Frye Olor Iscanus Paradise and Light passage passion pattern Pettet poem's poet's poetic Poetry of Henry prayer preface Puritans quatrains reader religious Renaissance resurrection rhythm sacred poems sacred verse satire Secular Poems secular verse Sejanus sense Seventeenth-Century Silex Scintillans sleep soul speaker's spirit stanza star symbol T. S. Eliot Tayler temporal thee theme things thou thought tion traditional transcend transfiguration truth unto Vaughan's conversion Vaughan's poetry