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Thomas Traherne

    Thomas Traherne was an English poet and clergyman whose writings are characterized by an intense, scholarly spirituality. His work, which frequently explores the glory of creation and an intimate relationship with God, conveys an ardent, almost childlike love for the divine. Traherne's poetry, associated with the metaphysical poets, exhibits themes akin to later writers like William Blake and Walt Whitman. His love for the natural world evokes Romanticism two centuries before the movement itself.

    The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, 1636?-1674; From the original manuscripts, With a Memoir of the Author
    Centuries
    • Centuries

      • 228 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
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      Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. Centuries, his best known work, was first published in 1908 after having been miraculously discovered in manuscript ten years earlier. Perhaps more than any spiritual writer of his age, Traherne is profoundly cognizant of the Glory of the Lord as it abides in Creation. His writing conveys an ardent, almost childlike love of God comparable to similar themes in the works of such later poets as William Blake, Walt Whitman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins

      Centuries