Christopher Harvey (poet)
Christopher Harvey (1597–1663) was an English clergyman and poet.
Life
The son of the Rev. Christopher Harvey of
On 14 November 1639 Harvey was instituted to the vicarage of
Harvey was buried at Clifton on 4 April 1663.[2]
Works
Harvey was the author of The Synagogue, a series of devotional poems appended anonymously to the 1640 edition of George Herbert's The Temple, and reprinted with most of its later editions. The Synagogue is a derivative imitation of Herbert.[2]
In 1647 Harvey issued anonymously Schola Cordis, or the Heart of it Selfe gone away from God; brought back againe to him; and instructed by him. In 47 Emblems; 2nd edition 1664; 3rd edition 1675. The volume has on the title-page "By the Author of the Synagogue". The emblems were adapted from Benedictus van Haeften's Schola Cordis.[2] This work was a free adaptation, with the engravings made freshly and reversed.[4] It was later reissued as The School of the Heart, and wrongly attributed to Francis Quarles.[5]
Harvey also published Ἀφηνιαστής. The Right Rebel. A Treatise discovering the true Use of the Name by the Nature of Rebellion, 1661 (reissue Faction Supplanted: or a Caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebels 1663); it was mostly written in 1642 and finished on 3 April 1645. A related polemical work was Self-Contradiction Censured, or, A Caveat Against Inconstancy (1662). Anthony Wood attributed to Harvey a book called Conditions of Christianity.[2][3]
Harvey was a friend of
Family
By his wife Margaret Harvey had nine children. Between 1630 and 1639 five of them were baptised at Whitney; the others at Clifton.[3]
References
- ISBN 978-0-85115-797-9.
Notes
- ^ Maltby, p. 95.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12511. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-3-11-017145-7. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22945. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Harvey, Christopher". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.