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Henry Vaughan

1621 - 1695

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Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655. In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished was published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Vaughan has received more than 290,224 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Henry Vaughan is the 6,326th most popular writer (down from 5,791st in 2019), the 5,432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,130th in 2019) and the 619th most popular British Writer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

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  • 3.47

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Vaughan ranks 6,326 out of 7,302. Before him are Thomas Warton, Andrew Davies, Wolf Blitzer, Samar Yazbek, Alyson Noël, and Naomi Wolf. After him are Tsai Chih-chung, Richard Wilbur, William Roscoe, Terry Southern, Stella Gibbons, and Alberto Dines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Henry Vaughan ranks 22. Before him are John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Andrew Marvell, Bohuslav Balbín, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, and Wacław Potocki.  Among people deceased in 1695, Henry Vaughan ranks 21. Before him are Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Huang Zongxi, Pierre Nicole, Samuel Morland, Christoph Arnold, and Paul Hermann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Vaughan ranks 5,432 out of 8,785. Before him are Walter Smith (1948), George Lansbury (1859), Barry Atsma (1972), Peter Reid (1956), James Dunn (1939), and George Eastham (1936). After him are Peter Chelsom (1956), Alexander Albon (1996), Andy Auld (1900), Jimmy Ross (1866), William Fox (1812), and William Ames (1576).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Henry Vaughan ranks 619. Before him are Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Brian Moore (1921), Alastair Reynolds (1966), Dick King-Smith (1922), Thomas Warton (1728), and Andrew Davies (1936). After him are William Roscoe (1753), Stella Gibbons (1902), Kathleen Raine (1908), Brian Friel (1929), Angie Sage (1952), and Susan Hill (1942).

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