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	§2. Thomas Traherne; "Centuries of Meditations". VI. Caroline Divines. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The ...
		All heaven and earth he takes for the province of the pious soul, and the breadth of his conception of true religion is reflected in the richness of his style.
		The style is that of a poet who is also a master of prose; and there is no monotony in the richness of meditation after meditation on the eternal theme of the goodness and the splendour of God.
		Traherne is markedly the product of his age, in its ardour of expansion.
	www.bartleby.com /217/0602.html (426 words)

	Thomas Traherne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637 - October 10, 1674) was an English poet and religious writer.
		Traherne has at his best an excellence all his own, but there can be no reasonable doubt that he was familiar both with the poems of George Herbert and of Vaughan.
		Thomas was one of the Metaphysical poets and probably the most celebratory of all of them, his writing expressing an ardent, childlike love of God and a firm belief in man’s relation to divinity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Traherne (602 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Thomas Traherne
		Thomas Traherne, the son of a shoemaker, was born in 1637 in Hereford, England.
		Traherne is often considered as the last of the Metaphysical poets, which included such major figures as John Donne, George Herbert, and Henry Vaughn.
		Thomas Traherne died in 1674 and was buried in Teddington under the reading desk in the church where he had served.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/308 (449 words)

	"Thomas Traherne: His Search for Felicity" by E.-B. Titchenell
		Thomas Traherne was born in the late 1630s, the son of a shoemaker at Hereford in western England.
		Traherne's unobtrusive existence in his small sphere would have passed unnoticed but for a series of fortuitous circumstances which brought some of his writings to light and aroused the curiosity of scholars.
		Thomas Traherne attained a recognition of this transcendence through his ordeal in the quiet field and knew that thenceforth he must pursue his quest for ever greater enlightenment through the means available to him.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/modeur/rel-ebt.htm (2115 words)

	Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thomas Traherne was born the son of a
		Thomas was one of the English Metaphysical poets and yet, in his lifetime, only one of his works was ever printed.
		Thomas Traherne's contribution to literature includes a depiction of childhood experiences not known in the literature of that time.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /traherne.htm (798 words)

	n_traherne
		Thomas Traherne was born in 1637 in Hereford, England and died in 1674 in Teddington.
		Traherne introduces us here to one of his great themes, that we are inheritors of the world, even more that we somehow 'own' it in its entirety, more surely than owners of property are legally entitled to whatever small share of the universe that conventional inheritance or acquisition has brought them.
		Traherne hints of himself as teacher in the introduction to Centuries, and in 'Mankind is sick' talks of the physician healing the sickness, the 'sad distemper of the mind'.
	www.jnani.org /natmyst/n_traherne.html (1558 words)

	Mirago : Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Prayer: Mysticism: Mystics: Traherne, Thomas
		The re-discovery of Traherne's poetry and prose-writings - Brief biography, and an assessment of both the charms and defects of Traherne's writing style.
		Thomas Traherne: "Centuries of Meditations"quot;quot; - Short essay on this book by Traherne, which was first published nearly 250 years after his death.
		Traherne, Thomas - Brief entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
	www.mirago.co.uk /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top%2fSociety%2fReligion_and_Spirituality%2fChristianity%2fPrayer%2fMysticism%2fMystics%2fTraherne%2c_Thomas (222 words)

	Thomas Traherne : Poems and Biography
		Thomas Traherne was an Anglican clergyman, mystic, philosopher, and poet.
		Thomas Traherne became rector of a church in the small town of Credenhill, not far from Hereford.
		Although Thomas Traherne's philosophical writings had a minor impact on the mystical circles of his day, the majority of his poetry was not published until more than 200 years after his death -- precipitating a rediscovery and deeper appreciation of his exhuberant mysticism.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /T/TraherneThom (675 words)

	Resurgence Issue 230 - A BEACON TO DISPEL THE GLOOM by Chris Hall
		Gerald Finzi arranged several of Traherne's verses for voice and accompaniment in the 1950s.
		Traherne's vision is no exception; he can be plunged inexplicably into the deepest pessimism and gloom.
		Through sound imagery we make the seamless transition from light to dark and experience vicariously the subtle transformation of a soul's journey into paradise only to be confronted at times by fathomless despair.
	www.resurgence.org /2005/hall230.htm (647 words)

	TRAHERNO, THOMAS - LoveToKnow Article on TRAHERNO, THOMAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		TRAHERNE, THOMAS (i637?-i674), English writer, was, according to Anthony a Wood, a " shoemaker's son of Hereford." He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1652, and after receiving his degree in 1656 took holy orders.
		Traherne became his domestic chaplain and also " minister " of Teddington.
		Traherne has at his best an excellence all his own, but there can be no reasonable doubt that he was familiar both with the poems of Herbert and of Vaughan.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TRAHERNO_THOMAS.htm (840 words)

	KOR 18 -- Thomas Traherne
		The son of a humble shoemaker of Hereford, Thomas Traherne survived the tumultuous times of the Civil War which raged through England and especially Herefordshire, leading to the beheading of Charles I, the rule of Cromwell and the restoration of Charles II.
		Fortunately for Thomas Traherne, a good benefactor (thought to be his Uncle, a publican of Hereford) sent him up to Oxford and to Brasenose College when he was only 15 years old, together with his elder brother Philip, both of whom studied theology and were ordained.
		In the case of Thomas Traherne, he was appointed thereafter as Minister to the village of Credenhill in Herefordshire.
	www.sol.com.au /kor/18_02.htm (1519 words)

	Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Prayer: Mysticism: Mystics: Traherne, Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The re-discovery of Traherne's poetry and prose-writings · iweb · cached · Brief biography, and an assessment of both the charms and defects of Traherne's writing style.
		Thomas Traherne: "Centuries of Meditations" · iweb · cached · Short essay on this book by Traherne, which was first published nearly 250 years after his death.
		Traherne, Thomas · iweb · cached · Brief entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=562363 (186 words)

	Kevin Laam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traherne does not necessarily intend his poems for publication, but when they get there, they no longer even accurately represent his private intentions as a writer.
		This manuscript contained even more of Traherne’s poems—some which were in the Dobell manuscript, some of which were not—and all of the Burney poems were in the handwriting of Philip Traherne.
		The poetical works of Thomas Traherne, faithfully reprinted from the author’s original manuscript, together with Poems of felicity, reprinted from the Burney manuscript, and poems of various sources.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~laam/traherne.html (1630 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : Thomas Traherne
		Thomas Traherne spent only a little time at Teddington.
		Thomas, brother of Philip Traherne, came from Hereford, where his father was a shoemaker.
		Brian Pearce in The Fashioned Reed has written of Traherne that "the apprehension of eternity through the innocence of childhood is the root and branch of his 'message', but it is expressed in prose and verse of great originality and unusual beauty".
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=199 (300 words)

	Criticism: Heavenly perspectives, mirrors of eternity: Thomas Traherne's yearning subject - Critical Essay
		Traherne's biographers have largely based their accounts upon readings of his poetry and prose, which seem ecstatic and childlike.
		His biographer and editor Gladys Wade codifies this identification of cause and effect when she concludes in 1942 that Traherne is "one of the most radiantly, most infectiously happy mortals this earth has known." (5) Recent articles have attempted to rescue Traherne from the legacy of his early biographers, placing him in a political context.
		Traherne claims ownership of a new kind of language in the preface of his Poems of Felicity, (10) one that spurns the poet's most useful tools, the metaphor and the image.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_4_43/ai_90251844 (1307 words)

	SPCK Catalogue - Thomas Traherne
		Thomas Traherne was one of the greatest poets and spiritual writers of the seventeenth century.
		During his lifetime, only one of Traherne's theological works was published, followed by a second after his death.
		Starting from what is familiar in Traherne, the passages of visionary writing, which are to be found in many anthologies, it takes us into less familiar territory...Traherne is a thinker very much of his own times...yet he is one who speaks in unexpected ways to the needs of the twenty-first century.' A. Allchin.
	www.spck.org.uk /cat/show.php?0281054681 (227 words)

	Exciting Holiness: 10 October (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thomas Traherne was born in Hereford in about 1636.
		Thomas was one of the English Metaphysical poets and yet, in his lifetime, only one of his works was ever printed.
		It was at the beginning of the twentieth century that his poems, until then in manuscript, were published and he took on the mantle of an Anglican Divine.
	www.excitingholiness.org /first-edition/m10/d10b.html (146 words)

	Thomas Traherne
		Thomas led a humble and devout life, and only one of his literary works, Roman Forgeries (1673), was published in his lifetime.
		Christian Ethicks (1675) followed soon, but then much of his finest work was lost, corrupted or misattributed to other writers.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thomas_Traherne.html (268 words)

	mike king - Nature Mysticism
		Traherne emphasises the innocence of childhood and speaks of his emergence from 'unbeing' to life and the delight in the treasures of the senses (in particular sight) and the sense that all belongs to him (and at the same time to all other men and women: in turn they are also his treasures).
		These verses introduce many of Traherne's themes: that it is blessed to be born (quite at odds with mainstream Christianity's concept of original sin), that the sense organs themselves are treasures (reminiscent of some Upanishadic and Tantric themes and practices); and that the objects of those senses are also treasures.
		Traherne shows us however a basic attribute that must be present in the nature mystic: an acceptance of the body, its sense-organs, and the divine nature of the world received through those senses when pure, that is freed from selfish desires.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /mr.king/writings/essays/essaysukc/natmystb.html (5549 words)

	Thomas Traherne: A 17th Century English Mystic.
		Thomas Traherne (c.1636-74), an Anglican priest, was also a metaphysical poet.
		Born in Hereford in England, the son of a poor shoemaker, his finest work appeared in the 1670s but was lost until rediscovered and published as Poems (1903) and Centuries of Meditations (1908).
		Traherne was alive to, and rapturous about the one 'thing' that every being in the universe has in common: the boundless space or 'Capacity' which is our innermost being.
	www.netowne.com /angels-christian/mysticism/traherne.htm (664 words)

	Traherne, Thomas -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The son of a shoemaker, Traherne was born in Hereford, England, in 1637.
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	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9338707 (704 words)

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		The re-discovery of Traherne's poetry and prose-writings - http://www.bartleby.com/217/0214.html
		Short essay on this book by Traherne, which was first published nearly 250 years after his death.
		Outlines the misadventures which befell Thomas Traherne's unpublished works after his death, and provides a bibliography.
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Prayer/Mysticism/Mystics/Traherne,_Thomas (284 words)

	Thomas Traherne Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These life-affirming devotional messages were written in the seventeen century by Thomas Traherne.
		In about the year 1904 these writings, in manuscript form, were found in a London bookstall by Bertram Dobell who was so impressed with their quality and value that he proceeded to take steps toward their publication in 1908.
		I first read them about four years ago, having seen a reference to Traherne in a book by James Houston of Regent College, Vancouver.
	www.spiritofprayer.com /traherne.php (502 words)

	Thomas Traherne
		"Thomas Traherne and the Doctrine of Felicity." Etudes De Lettres 13 (1939): 164-77.
		Owen, C. "The Thought and Art of Thomas Traherne: A Study of His Works with Some Reference to Their Major Sources." M.A. thesis, Westfield College, University of London, 1957.
		Russell, A. "A Study of Thomas Traherne's Christian Ethics in Its Relation to the Tradition of Caroline Piety." B.Litt.
	www.english.umd.edu /englfac/WPeterson/ELR/bibliographies/documents/29.html (2495 words)

	DIAGRAM :: Marc Pietrzykowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thomas Traherne's Thanksgiving poems were originally published in 1699 as A Serious and Patheticall Contemplation of the Mercies of God, and were promptly ignored.
		Other of his manuscripts were discovered and published during the 20th century, including one found smoldering in a dumpster, and these works have become fairly well-known; none, however, display the gushing, improvisational grandeur of the Thanksgivings.
		Interspersing the poem with passages from the Psalms is the only real rule, and then one riffs off these passages to form the poem.
	webdelsol.com /DIAGRAM/3_4/pietrzykowski.html (101 words)

	READ - A Poet Comes Home: Thomas Traherne, Theologian in a New Century by Denise Inge - Anglican Theological Review
		Thomas Traherne, the seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet best known for his writings on early childhood innocence and the glory of creation, was a nature-loving mystic and an inveterate optimist.
		But important manuscript discoveries made in 1997 have sparked a new interest in Traherne, and the received understanding of his work is rapidly changing.
		It is a comprehensive introduction to an Anglican divine who inspired such spiritual "greats" as C. Lewis and Thomas Merton, and is poised to have a significant influence on Christian thinking in this new century.
	www.anglicantheologicalreview.org /read/article_view.php?id=243 (233 words)

	Resurgence Issue 230 - A BEACON TO DISPEL THE GLOOM by Chris Hall
		Gerald Finzi arranged several of Traherne's verses for voice and accompaniment in the 1950s.
		With no previous knowledge of Traherne, I was totally bowled over and inspired by these arrangements by Finzi.
		Traherne's vision is no exception; he can be plunged inexplicably into the deepest pessimism and gloom.
	resurgence.org /2005/hall230.htm (647 words)

	DEVOTIONAL ARTICLE
		For Traherne this joy and delight in creation was in him from childhood and even in times of grief and sadness it never left him.
		Three centuries before Traherne Julian of Norwich, inspired by revelations of divine love had claimed ‘All shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.’ In the same spirit Traherne claimed ‘A sight of happiness is happiness … all things were well in their proper places.
		Traherne is a profoundly Christian writer, but in no narrow sense.
	trushare.com /77OCT01/OC01DEVO.htm (558 words)

	The Blog from the Core - A Decade of Centuries
		Traherne wrote four complete centuries; another, he left incomplete, so there are 510 meditations altogether.
		Capitalization, punctuation, spelling (including the idiosyncratic omission of the final "e" from certain words) and emphasis are as in the copy text.
		According to Ridler, moreover, Thomas Traherne "often uses a full point where it does not mark the end of a sentence, and is not followed by a capital.
	weblog.theviewfromthecore.com /2004_05/ind_003626.html (1355 words)

	DEVOTIONAL
		Amazingly, a 17th century Church of England clergyman, poet and writer, Thomas Traherne (c 163 6-74) might well help to point the way for us.
		His outward life seems to have been uneventful, though he lived through the turbulent years of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, and few of his writings were published in his short lifetime.
		This enjoyment of the world Traherne acknowledges as an act of praise and adoration of God.
	trushare.com /57FEB00/fe00devo.htm (924 words)

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