Tag Archives: Louis Martz

The Trinity of Love

Posted on September 10, 2015 by David Buresh

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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Traces of God in Creation

Posted on August 8, 2015 by David Buresh

Building on the challenges and encouragements in Traherne’s First Century, Professor Martz helps us embrace Traherne’s Second Century as an aid to finding the traces of God in creation. Martz points to two Traherne passages that could stimulate our imaginations over … Continue reading →

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Professor Martz’s Structural Study of Traherne’s Centuries

Posted on July 12, 2015 by David Buresh

A. Leigh Deneef, in his important study, Traherne in Dialogue, noted that Louis Martz’s The Paradise Within, is one of the most important structural studies of Traherne’s Centuries. I would argue that it is probably the most helpful guide as … Continue reading →

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Traherne’s Technique of Repetition

Posted on May 21, 2015 by David Buresh

In preparing his readers for a tour through Traherne’s Centuries, Professor Louis Martz dedicates twelve pages of The Paradise Within to Traherne’s (and Augustine’s) “technique of repetition.” Traherne’s overall approach is most cogently defended in the following assessment: “The Centuries, … Continue reading →

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The Principles of Augustine

Posted on March 9, 2015 by David Buresh

In his attempt to help us in our reading of Traherne’s Centuries, Louis Martz asks, “Can the principles of Augustine also be used to explore the full extent and progress of the Centuries, and to measure the degree of its … Continue reading →

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Traherne’s Augustinian Quest to Find the Paradise Within

Posted on March 5, 2015 by David Buresh

Professor Louis Martz intuited Traherne’s essence as well as anyone. That essence was formed by the triad of the Bible, Nature, and the Self. Martz explains that these were “the three ‘books’ cultivated by the medieval Augustinians, and especially by … Continue reading →

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Reading Traherne with Professor Louis Martz

Posted on February 15, 2015 by David Buresh

Professor Louis Martz is a treasure who, not unlike Traherne, has been overlooked by the publishing world. In other words, such works of his as The Poetry of Meditation and The Paradise Within have been out of print for some … Continue reading →

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Reading Traherne’s Centuries with H. M. Margoliouth

Posted on October 23, 2014 by David Buresh

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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Worthy Companions As We Read Traherne

Posted on September 1, 2014 by David Buresh

We live during an ideal time for enjoying Thomas Traherne. We’ve had nearly 120 years of Traherne manuscript discoveries and enough time for great thinkers and writers to have reflected on his writings and offer their own meditations and analyses. Among … Continue reading →

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