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TRAHERNE, THOMAS (1637?-1674)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 155 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TRAHERNE, THOMAS (1637?-1674) , 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. In the following year he was appointed
rector
  of Credenhill, near
Hereford
 , and in 1661 received his M.A. degree. He found a good patron in Sir Orlando Bridgeman, lord keeper of the seals from 1667 to 1672. Traherne became his domestic chaplain and also " minister " of Teddington. He died at Bridgeman's
house
  at Teddington on or about the 27th of September 1674. He led, we are told, a simple and devout life, and was well read in primitive antiquity and the fathers. His
prose
  works are Roman Forgeries (1673), Christian Ethics (1675), and A Serious and Patheticall Contemplation of of God (1699). His poems have a curious history.discovery included, beside the poems, four complete "'Centuries of Meditation," short paragraphs embodying reflexions on religion and morals. Some of these, evidently autobiographical in character, describe a childhood from which the "
glory
  and the dream " was slow to depart. Of the power of nature to inform the mind with beauty, and the ecstatic harmony of a child with the natural world, the earlier poems, which contain his best
work
 ,. are full. In their manner, as in their matter, they remind the reader of Blake and Words-worth. 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. The poems on childhood may well have been inspired by Vaughan's lines entitled The
Retreat
 . His poetry is essentially metaphysical and his workmanship is uneven, but the collection contains passages of great beauty.
See Bertram Dobell's editions of the Poetical Works (1906) and Centuries of Meditation (1908).


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