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Selected WritingsThomas TraherneEdited by Dick Davis![]()
Categories: 17th Century, Christianity
Imprint: FyfieldBooks Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) 9780856352317 Out of Stock
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Is better far Than many precious stones: One sun, which is above in glory seen, Is worth ten thousand golden thrones: A juicy herb or spire of grass In useful virtue, native green, An emerald doth surpass, Hath in't more value, though less seen. from THE APOSTASY
Thomas Traherne's poems were discovered in London in 1896 and originally assigned in error to Henry Vaughan. Later scholarship has established their true authorship. Traherne (1637-1674) was a remarkable religious writer. The son of a Hereford shoe-maker, he was well-educated, took religious orders and pursued a varied career. Prior to the discovery of his poems, he was best known for his Centuries of Meditations, of which passages from the third are most widely anthologised. The visionary precision of his prose characterises his verse as well: he is not an altogether orthodox mystic.
Dick Davis presents a selection from the full range of Traherne's poetry and prose and provides a critical and biographical introduction.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION A NOTE ON THE TEXT The Author to the Critical Peruser The Salutation Wonder Eden Innocence The Preparative Dumbness Silence My Spirit Nature The Person Love The Rapture Desire On News The Apostasy Solitude Bells Christendom Shadows in the Water On leaping over the Moon Dreams Insatiableness Hosanna An Hymm upon St Bartholomew's Day On the Bible from The First Century from The Second Century from The Third Century
Awards won by Dick Davis
Winner, 1981 Royal Society of Literature Award (Seeing the World)
Praise for Dick Davis
'Original poetry and translated Persian verse weave together into a single life, translation as border and
A.E. Stallings, The TLS '...throughout Love in Another Language, a strange perfusion of elements is at work, at once familiar and exotic; there are bizarre depths, weird echoes, beneath the seemingly traditional and seemingly quite "English surfaces of the poems... Dick Davis's collected poems of over forty-three years constitute what the great Persian poet Nizami called a "makhzan-i-asrar", a treasure-house of mysteries and perfected marvels.' Eric Ormsby, the TLS 'It is marvelous to find a poet whose poetry lives through its metre. His handling of it is masterful, and you are never aware of the effort. And the language is exact but relentless, like the perceptions . . . Davis is one of the best poets around.' Thom Gunn |
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