Thomas Traherne (1637–1674)

Author of Centuries

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Thomas Traherne was born in Hereford, England in 1637. He was educated at the University of Oxford and was ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1660. Only one work, Roman Forgeries, was published before his death on September 27, 1674. The majority of his works including Christian Ethicks, Poetical show more Works, Centuries of Mediations, and Traherne's Poems of Felicity were published posthumously, as late as 1910. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Image credit: Thomas Traherne, depicted by Tom Denny, as part of a series of stained-glass windows at Hereford Cathedral

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Christian Ethics

Works by Thomas Traherne

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Centuries (1908) 250 copies

George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets [Norton Critical Edition] (1978) — Author — 233 copies

Traherne: Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) (1991) 69 copies

Thomas Traherne: Poems, Centuries and Three Thanksgivings (1958) 36 copies

Thomas Traherne: Poetry and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing) (2002) 25 copies

Thomas Traherne: Select Meditation (Fyfield Books) (1997) 20 copies

The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne (1932) 19 copies

Landscapes of Glory: Daily Readings With Thomas Traherne (1989) 16 copies

Selected Writings (Fyfield Books) (1980) 12 copies

Felicities of Thomas Traherne (1934) 11 copies

The Shining Human Creature: Christian Ethics, Vol. I (2025) 11 copies

The Works of Thomas Traherne - Volume I (2005) 10 copies

The Works of Thomas Traherne II: Commentaries of Heaven, part 1: Abhorrence to Alone (2007) 10 copies

The Works of Thomas Traherne III: Commentaries of Heaven, part 2: Al-Sufficient to Bastard (2007) 9 copies

Waking Up in Heaven: A Contemporary Edition of Centuries of Meditation (2002) 8 copies

Thomas Traherne: Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings Volume I: Introduction and Centuries (1958) 8 copies

The Works of Thomas Traherne V (2013) 8 copies

The works of Thomas Traherne. Volume VI, Poems from the Dobell Folio, Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from… (2014) 7 copies

Centuries of Meditations - Enhanced Version 7 copies

The way to Blessedness (1962) 7 copies

The Works of Thomas Traherne IV: Church's Year-Book, Meditations and Devotions from the Resurrection to All Saints'… (2009) 6 copies

Made Like the Maker: Christian Ethics, Vol. II (2023) 6 copies

Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation (Augustan Reprints) (1992) 4 copies

Selections from Thomas Traherne's Centuries of Meditations 4 copies

Thomas Traherne, centuries, poems, and thanksgivings 2 copies

Thomas Traherne (1965) 2 copies

Joys. 2 copies

Centuries, Poems And Thanksgivings. Edited By H. M. Margoliouth. Volume Ii (1965) 2 copies

Izbrane pesmi 1 copy

Poems, centuries and three thanksgivings. Edited by Anne Ridler. With an introduction (1966) 1 copy

The First Century of Meditations. One of 50 copies. Linocut illustrations by Andrew Judd. 1 copy

The Poetry Of Thomas Traherne: "More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery." 1 copy

Goûter Dieu : Méditations choisies (2020) 1 copy

The Second Century of Meditations. 1 copy

Joys : passages from the works of Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) (2004) 1 copy

Roman forgeries or A true account of false records : discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the… 1 copy

Selected Poems & Prose 1 copy

The works of Thomas Traherne. volume VII, Christian ethics : or, Divine morallity, opening the way to blessedness, by… (2022) 1 copy

Four Meditations from Traherne's "Centuries" set & printed by Claude Fredericks for his friends at Christmas MCMLIII 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,056 copies

The Metaphysical Poets (1957) — Contributor — 936 copies

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 450 copies

Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry (1929) — Author, some editions — 211 copies

Poems of Faith (2002) — Contributor — 42 copies

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Contributor — 20 copies

BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 22 : The BBC Singers and Shiva Feshareki [programme] (2021) — Text — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1637
Date of death: 1674
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Places of residence: Hereford, England (birth)
Teddington, England (death)
Education: Oxford University
Occupations: clergyman
poet

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Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne

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holycrossabbey | 4 other reviews | Jul 13, 2021 |

Centuries by Thomas Traherne

A fine 16th century work emphasising Felicity.

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holycrossabbey | 4 other reviews | May 6, 2019 |

Trahernes poems of felicity by Thomas Traherne

first ed 1910 rare

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mrattigan | Mar 6, 2018 |

George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious… by George Herbert

A fine compilation of 17th poets, including George Herbert. I am not a huge fan of 17th century religious poetry, but this was a good book to give one an overview and a starting point for further study.

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