Centuries of Meditations - Couverture rigide

Traherne, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 161640292X ISBN 13 : 9781616402921

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2010

Synopsis

For more than 200 years, Thomas Traherne's Centuries of Meditations was undiscovered and unpublished. The manuscript passed through many hands before finally being compiled into a book by bookseller and scholar BERTRAM DOBELL (1842-1914) in 1908. Centuries is a collection of poems written to express the rapture of life lived in accordance with God. Yet Dobell is careful to state that even though Traherne was a clergyman, there is plenty of beauty to be found in his poetry that does not require specific belief in Christianity or in God. Readers of many ages and persuasions will be touched by Traherne's passages on love and belonging.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is now four years since it fell to my lot to make known to the world the poems of Thomas Traheme. For considerably more than two centuries they had remained in manuscript, unknown and uncared for. They had fallen into my hands by what I must needs think was a very remarkable series of accidents ;and I account it as one of the most fortunate incidents of my life that I immediately discerned their value and importance. When I published them I did not fear to express my belief that they were the work of one of the finest and noblest spirits that ever existed, and it was a great gratification to me that my own estimate of Traherne was accepted as a true one by all competent judges. I do not think that any one whose opinions are worth consideration would now deny that this successor of George Herbert, and contemporary of Milton, Crashaw and Vaughan, is worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with them.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 161640292X
• ISBN 13: 9781616402921
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Dobell Bertram
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible