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See also:TRAHERNE, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1637?-1674) , See also:English writer, was, according to See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, a " shoemaker's son of See also:Hereford." He entered Brasenose See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in 1652, and after receiving his degree in 1656 took See also:holy orders. In the following See also:year he was appointed See also:rector of Credenhill, near Hereford, and in 1661 received his M.A. degree. He found a See also:good See also:patron in See also:Sir Orlando Bridgeman, See also:lord keeper of the See also:seals from 1667 to 1672. Traherne became his domestic See also:chaplain and also " See also:minister " of See also:Teddington. He died at Bridgeman's See also:house at Teddington on or about the 27th of See also:September 1674. He led, we are told, a See also:simple and devout See also:life, and was well read in See also:primitive antiquity and the fathers. His See also:prose See also:works are See also:Roman Forgeries (1673), See also:Christian See also:Ethics (1675), and A Serious and Patheticall Contemplation of of See also:God (1699). His poems have a curious See also:history.See also:discovery included, beside the poems, four See also:complete "'Centuries of Meditation," See also:short paragraphs embodying reflexions on See also:religion and morals. Some of these, evidently autobiographical in See also:character, describe a childhood from which the " See also:glory and the See also:dream " was slow to depart. Of the See also:power of nature to inform the mind with beauty, and the ecstatic See also:harmony of a See also:child with the natural See also:world, the earlier poems, which contain his best See also:work,. are full. In their manner, as in their See also:matter, they remind the reader of See also:Blake and Words-See also:worth. Traherne has at his best an excellence all his own, but there can be no reasonable doubt that he was See also:familiar both with the poems of See also:Herbert and of See also:Vaughan. The poems on childhood may well have been inspired by Vaughan's lines entitled The See also:Retreat. His See also:poetry is essentially metaphysical and his workmanship is uneven, but the collection contains passages of See also:great beauty.
See See also:Bertram See also:Dobell's See also:editions of the Poetical Works (1906) and Centuries of Meditation (1908).
End of Article: TRAHERNE, THOMAS (1637?-1674)
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