Traherne, Thomas
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Traherne, Thomas (1637–74). Religious writer. Son of a Hereford shoemaker but enabled to study at Oxford, Traherne was ordained in 1660 and held the living of Credenhill (near Hereford) 1661–74, though he resided at London and Teddington 1669–74 as domestic chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman, lord keeper of the great seal. Despite his literary intensity, only
Roman Forgeries (1673), which attempted to substantiate charges against the Roman church for tampering with early Christian church records, was published in his lifetime.
Christian Ethicks (1675) and
Thanksgivings (1699) were posthumous, but manuscripts for
Centuries of Meditations (instructing a friend in the way of ‘felicity’) and
Poetical Works had to await chance discovery on a London street bookstall in 1896, whilst
Poems of Felicity was unearthed later in the British Museum. A mystic poet like
Herbert and
Vaughan, Traherne was acknowledged by contemporaries for piety and scholarship, though has since been charged with naïvety.
A. S. Hargreaves
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Traherne, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Christianity, Anglican, Issues in Science and Religion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
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Sidney, Philip (1554–1586)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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Streep, Meryl
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