Henry Vaughan
1622 –
1695
Henry Vaughan was born on April 17, 1622, in Llansantffraed, Breconshire, Wales. He was educated in Oxford and studied law in London before being recalled home after the English Civil War broke out.
Vaughan is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished (1646). He was considered a Metaphysical poet, alongside John Donne and George Herbert. He practiced medicine in the latter half of his life, and died in Llansantffraed on April 23, 1695.
