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A Day with Thomas Traherne
A little enjoyment of the world and all the people in it can go a long way. In her book, Lost in Wonder, Esther deWaal quotes the Jewish proverb, “On the day of Judgment God will only ask one question: … Continue reading
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Ronald Blythe Describes a Traherne Festival in Credenhill
This past Christmas, a long-time family friend and fellow bibliophile and anglophile, Katherine Brown, gifted me with Ronald Blythe’s Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year. She and I took a 17th century literature class together at University of Maryland way … Continue reading
Dorothy Sayers Compares Traherne to Dante and Wordsworth
Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957), was a noted English novelist, essayist, poet, dramatist, and translator. She is one of the first women ever to receive a degree from Oxford University. In 1957, the last year of her life, she gave a lecture … Continue reading
Poem about Traherne, by Robert Siegel
It never fails to surprise me when I come across another noted author or poet whose vision of the world was influenced by Thomas Traherne. I recently happened upon this poem by Robert Siegel (1939-2012), an American poet and novelist. … Continue reading
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The Trinity of Love
One of Traherne’s most poetic and profound concepts is the Trinity of Love. Though the origin of the concept can be traced back to Augustine, the poetic quality of Traherne’s explication is uniquely his own. It occupies approximately 30 of … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Centuries of Meditations, Louis Martz, Love, The Paradise Within, Traherne, Trinity
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H.M. Margoliouth and Questions about Modernizing Traherne
H.M. Margoliouth, a prominent 20th century literary scholar and editor, raised important questions about whether or not Traherne’s text should be modernized, and, if so, how. Margoliuoth was no stranger to these questions. Thirty-one years before Margoliouth’s edition of Traherne’s … Continue reading
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Reading Traherne’s Centuries with H. M. Margoliouth
In 1958, a significant publishing event occurred in the history of Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations and his Poems. At this time, fifty years after Dobell’s modernized edition of Traherne’s text introduced the world to Traherne’s unique voice, Oxford University … Continue reading
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C.S. Lewis and His Dobell Edition of Traherne’s Centuries
In my last entry, I wrote about Bertram Dobell’s role in the first-ever publication of Traherne’s Centuries in 1908. If one had happened to read Traherne’s Centuries between 1908 and 1958, it was probably from Dobell’s edition. There is one story … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Greeves, Bertram Dobell, C. S. Lewis, Traherne
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Surprised by Traherne 