Traherne: Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) [Paperback]

Thomas Traherne (Author), Alan Bradford (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Penguin Classics | Publication Date: February 4, 1992

Thomas Traherne was a 17th-century mystical poet. He is also the author of the prose work "Centuries of Meditation", an account of Traherne's early intuitions which is a convincing depiction of childhood experience in English literature.

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Adam
Admiration
Amendment: 1
Amendment: 2
Amendment: 3
Amendment: 4
Amendment: 5
Amendment: 6
Amendment: 7
Another
The Anticipation
The Apostasy
The Apprehension
The Approach
The Author To The Critical Peruser
Bells
The Bible
Bliss
Christendom
Christian Ethics: As In A Clock
Christian Ethics: Contentment
Christian Ethics: Mankind Is Sick
Churches
The Circulation
The City
Consummation
The Demonstration
The Design
Desire
The Dialogue
Dissatisfaction
Dreams
Dumbness
Ease
Eden
The Estate
The Evidence
Felicity
Fullness
Goodness
Hosanna
The Image
The Improvement
In Salem Dwelt A Glorious King
An Infant-eye
The Inference: 1
The Inference: 2
Innocence
The Inquiry
Insatiableness
The Instruction
A Life Of Sabbaths Here Beneath!
Love
Misapprehension
My Spirit
Nature
The Odour
On Christmas-day
On Leaping Over The Moon
On News
The Person
Poem On Moderation
Poverty
The Preparative (version A)
The Rapture (1)
The Recovery (1)
The Recovery (2)
The Return
The Review
Right Apprehension
Rise, Noble Soul
The Salutation
Shadows In The Water
Sight
Silence
Sin
Solitude
Speed
Thanksgivings For The Body
Thoughts I
Thoughts Ii
Thoughts Iii
Thoughts Iv
To The Same Purpose
The Vision
Walking
While I, O Lord, Exalted By Thy Hand
Wonder
The World
Ye Hidden Nectars
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (February 4, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140445439
• ISBN-13: 978-0140445435
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #591,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meditations on Eternity, August 15, 2001

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Thomas Schuhmann "Shumanthehuman" (Wuerzburg) - See all my reviews
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Unfortunately this book is as rare as a diamond found in the street. If you are looking for innocence and purity, this voice from the 17th century in England might talk to you as it did to me. Traherne fits into a world described by Van Morrison, T.S.Eliot or William Blake. He seems to have antennas that are connected to Paradise, but not in a dry, scholarly way. His images are refreshing, personal, childlike. He is filled with a genuine, true love that communicates itself to the reader. Consider yourself a lucky person if you get in touch with this fountain of joy.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Passionately and deeply spiritual poetry., June 4, 1999

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This review is from: Traherne: Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

Traherne's work is deeply spiritual. His vision is clear and consistant. The impression of reading his work is of getting not only into the author's thoughts, but simultaneously his spirit. Written in post-Shakespearian England by a Presbyterian pastor. A must read.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars traherne and christian transcendence, January 13, 2002

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erwin h. frazier (travelers rest, s.c. United States) - See all my reviews

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traherne is writing based upon the reality of his spiritual experience, it is not something written merely for amusement or speculation.If a Christian has been given, by God, through divine union, the gift of peace passing all understanding, it acts as if an interruption in time.Time, in a spiritual sense, loses its flow and if we experience this state, there is a complete loss of every anxiety.....so we are not longing for the past or the future, but the NOW...THE PRESENT REALITY. This is where Traherne has encouraged me, because this has been my reality too though no amount of self effort could produce such a condition.It is too bad that Traherne is so unknown, but then, some one would have to experience what he is saying in his writings in order to understand them because this is not merely intellectual, like reading words off a page.Otherwise, it seems like so much pseudo science and abstract reasoning, but its not.Its a higher form of reality,realized only by those who pursue holiness and wait on the grace of God.And its possible though you will convince no one.Its all between you and God.Love Traherne.