UID:
almafu_9960119178802883
Format:
1 online resource (xliii, 536 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-15076-6
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9786612150760
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1-84615-604-1
Series Statement:
Works of Thomas Traherne
Uniform Title:
Works. 2007
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〉 were discovered. There have been since miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings.〈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. It will include both his published and unpublished works, and his notebooks, presenting them insofar as possible by manuscript, giving due attention to their physical aspects and to their integrity as manuscript books.〈BR〉 Volumes II and III make available the 〈I〉Commentaries of Heaven〈/I〉, preserved in one manuscript held at the British Library. Organised topically, it was intended to cover the whole of the alphabet but extends only through `A' and part of `B', with 95 prose articles altogether. It possesses the characteristics of a commonplace book, encyclopaedia and dictionary, and contains poetry, meditations, philosophical discourse, and polemic. The unusual range of subjects treated, from `Abhorrence' to `Ant', `Aristotle' to `Atom', showsTraherne to be an imaginative and compelling writer in his approach to Christian theology, while maintaining both his integrity and orthodoxy as a priest.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jan 2016).
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CONTENTS; GENERAL PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Physical description of the manuscript; Identification of scripts; Dating of the manuscript; Provenance of the manuscript; Commentaries of Heaven and The Commonplace Book; Traherne's sources and method of composition; Traherne's method of cross-referencing; Traherne's purpose; Traherne's ordering of his subject; Seventeenth-century contexts; General editorial principles; LIST OF TOPICS; Commentaries of Heaven; Textual Emendations; APPENDIX; Commonplace Book; Commonplace Book Topics with Foliation
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Commonplace Book SourcesCross-references within Commentaries of Heaven to topics within the Commonplace Book; Internal Cross-references within Commentaries of Heaven; Cross-references under 'A' not in Commentaries of Heaven nor the Commonplace Book; Manuscript Foliation of Topics in Commentaries of Heaven; GLOSSARY
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-135-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846156045
