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 See also:

• THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637?-1674)

TRAHERNE (1637?-1674)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English writer, was, according to See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony a See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

Wood, a " shoemaker's son of See also:

• HEREFORD

Hereford." He entered Brasenose See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

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

holy orders . In the following See also:

• YEAR

year he was appointed See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of Credenhill, near Hereford, and in 1661 received his M.A. degree . He found a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• PATRON

patron in See also:

• SIR

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord keeper of the See also:

• SEALS

seals from 1667 to 1672 . See also:

• TRAHERNE, THOMAS (1637?-1674)

Traherne became his domestic See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain and also " See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister " of See also:

• TEDDINGTON

Teddington . He died at Bridgeman's See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house at Teddington on or about the 27th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1674 . He led, we are told, a See also:

• SIMPLE

simple and devout See also:

• LIFE

life, and was well read in See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive antiquity and the fathers . His See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• WORKS

works are See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Forgeries (1673), See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

Ethics (1675), and A Serious and Patheticall Contemplation of of See also:

• GOD

God (1699) . His poems have a curious See also:

• HISTORY

history.See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery included, beside the poems, four See also:

• COMPLETE

complete "'Centuries of Meditation," See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short paragraphs embodying reflexions on See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion and morals . Some of these, evidently autobiographical in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, describe a childhood from which the " See also:

• GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

glory and the See also:

• DREAM (from a root dreug, connected with Germ. trugen, to deceive)

dream " was slow to depart . Of the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of nature to inform the mind with beauty, and the ecstatic See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony of a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child with the natural See also:

• WORLD

world, the earlier poems, which contain his best See also:

• WORK

work,. are full . In their manner, as in their See also:

• MATTER

matter, they remind the reader of See also:

• BLAKE, EDWARD (1833– )
• BLAKE, ROBERT (1599-1657)
• BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)

Blake and Words-See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth . Traherne has at his best an excellence all his own, but there can be no reasonable doubt that he was See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar both with the poems of See also:

• HERBERT (FAMILY)
• HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
• HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM
• HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (1606-1682)

Herbert and of See also:

• VAUGHAN, CHARLES JOHN (1816-1897)
• VAUGHAN, HENRY (1622-1695)
• VAUGHAN, HERBERT (1832-1903)
• VAUGHAN, THOMAS (1622-1666)
• VAUGHAN, WILLIAM (1577-1641)

Vaughan .

The poems on childhood may well have been inspired by Vaughan's lines entitled The See also:

• RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

Retreat . His See also:

• POETRY

poetry is essentially metaphysical and his workmanship is uneven, but the collection contains passages of See also:

• GREAT

great beauty . See See also:

• BERTRAM, CHARLES (1723–1765)

Bertram See also:

• DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (1824-1874)

Dobell's See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of the Poetical Works (1906) and Centuries of Meditation (1908) .