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The Search ❖ Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. ❖ External & internal journey to ﬁnd Christ ❖ pilgrimage motif, biblical allusions ❖ night - time of mystical vision ❖ ‘roving extasie’ (l. 4) - characteristic of this poem

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The Search

❖ Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s influence in his religious poems.

❖ External & internal journey to find Christ

❖ pilgrimage motif, biblical allusions

❖ night - time of mystical vision

❖ ‘roving extasie’ (l. 4) - characteristic of this poem

Page 2: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Rose -Virgin Mary’s emblem

Page 3: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Rose without thorns -She is free of original sin

Page 4: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Nativity

Page 5: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

The Magi (Three Wise Men)

Page 6: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Christ among the Doctors

Page 7: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Model of the Second Temple

Page 8: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount

Page 9: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Bedrock or Foundation Stone- Well of Souls

Page 10: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well

Page 11: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Agony in the Garden

Page 12: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Church of Holy Sepulchreat Calvary

Page 13: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

❖ Wilderness - place of purification

❖ Desert fathers - early Christian hermits who fled into the desert from the persecution of the Romans

❖ Jesus’s bride - Church, New Jerusalem

❖ ‘rove in’ - from external to internal journey within

❖ The voice of conscience calling him back to the right path - Herbert’s influence

❖ ‘mere despair of wings’ - paradox - only the poor in spirit shall inherit the kingdom of heaven

Page 14: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

The World

❖ night - time of mystical visions

❖ blindness/sight; light/darkness

❖ concretize the abstract (eternity -> ring)

❖ categories of men: lover, statesman, miser, epicure, petty men

❖ ring conceit - eternity -> betrothal ring

❖ circular structure

❖ hearing voice at the end

Page 15: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Baroque

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Page 16: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Mary Magdalene

Page 17: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Richard Crashaw’s ‘The Weeper’❖ Steps to the Temple (1646) - admirer of George Herbert

❖ Used to live in Italy during the Civil War, he is perhaps the only English poet who, perhaps like none other, was directly influenced by the continental baroque style

❖ overdecorated, obsessed with limited set of sensuous imagery (nest, rose, milk, hair, feet, etc.)

❖ bathos - sudden change from what is lofty or deeply moving to what is foolish, trivial or ludicrous

❖ no real structure, no development, just strings of repetition and variation

❖ no cerebral appeal, sensational rather than metaphysical

Page 18: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Henry King’s ‘The Exequy’❖ T. S. Eliot called this ‘one of the finest’ and indeed ‘matchless’

poem in English language

❖ Donne’s and Jonson’s influence

❖ metaphor, conceit (echoes of Donne)

❖ octosyllabic couplet, restrained tone, occasional (his wife’s funeral)

❖ controlled meditative structure

❖ ll. 1-80 - elegy for his dead wife

❖ ll. 81-120 - metaphor of his journey to join her in death

Page 19: the search vaughanThe Search Vaughan called himself a Son of Ben, but clearly we see a lot of Donne’s and Herbert’s inﬂuence in his religious poems. External & internal journey

Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress” “The Definition of Love” “On a Drop of Dew” “Bermudas” “The Garden” (The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn) “A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body” “The Coronet” “The Mower’s Song”