Henry Vaughan, Thalia Rediviva

Glyn Pursglove (Swansea University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1678

Places

Wales (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

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Thalia Rediviva

was published some 23 years after Vaughan's previous collection, and most of the poems included in it were certainly written many years before publication. In 1673 Vaughan informed John Aubrey that the book was ready for the press, but it was a further five years before it appeared. The book's full title, as it appears on the title-page, is revealing: “The

Pass-Times

and

Diversions

of a Countrey-Muse, In Choice Poems On several Occasions. With Some Learned

Remains

of the Eminent

Eugenius Philalethes

. Never made Publick till now”. Eugenius Philalethes was the pseudonym of Henry Vaughan's twin brother Thomas, and one purpose of the volume was clearly to put into circulation some of the Latin poems of Thomas (who had died in 1666). The resulting compilation is something…

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Citation: Pursglove, Glyn. "Thalia Rediviva". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1671, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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