UID:
almafu_9960118843202883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 571 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-08004-0
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9786612080043
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1-84615-440-5
Series Statement:
Works of Thomas Traherne
Uniform Title:
Works. 2005
Content:
Thomas Traherne [1637?-1674], a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and 〈I〉Centuries of Meditations〈/I〉 werediscovered. Although his reputation as a metaphysical poet in the tradition of Donne and Herbert has grown since then, there have only been miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings, with much of his output still unpublished.〈BR〉 〈I〉The Works of Thomas Traherne〈/I〉 brings together all of Traherne's extant works in a definitive, printed edition for the first time, with the purpose of giving a sense of the manuscript or printed originals. His works not published in print will be edited by manuscript insofar as possible, giving due attention to their physical aspects and to their integrity as manuscript books. The text of Traherne's works will be printed in seven volumes, with an eighth volume of commentary, and a further volume of his notebooks.〈BR〉 This first volume makes available in print four treatises contained in a single manuscript recently discovered in 1997 at Lambeth Palace Library. While they bear the stamp of Traherne's unique character of thought and writing, they are diverse in subject and form. Traherne wrote against a background of scepticism as well as a growing atheism. These four works show him to be profoundly aware of the currents of hisage, theological, political, sociological and scientific, to which he responded with thoughtful and imaginative insights. They show him also to be a compelling apologist for the Christian religion and for the goodness of the church.〈BR〉 This much needed and important edition of the works of Thomas Traherne makes a valuable contribution not only to Traherne studies but also to seventeenth-centurystudies in general.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Dec 2015).
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FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS ; LIST OF PLATES ; GENERAL PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; Introduction; Description of the separate treatises; Description of the physical manuscript; Identification of scripts; Dating and compilation of the manuscript; Purpose of the manuscript; Traherne's use of his sources and method of composition; General editorial principles; Inducements to Retirednes; A Sober View of Dr Twisses his Considerations; Seeds of Eternity or The Nature of the Soul; The Kingdom of God; APPENDIX ; 'False start' to The Kingdom of God; Fragment on 'Love'; GLOSSARY
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-037-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846154409
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846154409/type/BOOK
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