Thomas Traherne

Throughout her life SH built her friendships in connection with her religious beliefs. Her recorded relationships of this kind were with men. In the 1650s she was close to Father Henry Turberville , who converted...

Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME 's teachers: Milton , Thomas Traherne , Walter de la Mare , and Thomas Hardy , the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing...

Julia J. Smith has traced SH 's reputation through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (when she was regularly mentioned with respect in lists of celebrated women, while her mystical associate Thomas Traherne was largely forgotten)...

Though VA 's poems were well received when they first began to appear, she was always a poet out of step with her time: more in tune, as Claire Harman remarks, with writers of the...

Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson , who died in 1981. Its heavily-symbolic title paradoxically suggests both life and death; it expresses a foreboding sense of the latter...

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

AR did a new edition of Thomas Traherne 's Poems, Centuries and Three Thanksgivings (1966), based on the earlier edition by H. M. Margoliouth entitled Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings. She delighted particularly in...

The title-page calls her an Humble Penitent, not using her name. Thomas Traherne , whose Roman Forgeries was entered in the Stationers' Register on the same day, is now believed to have been instrumental...

George Hickes believed this work to be by SH . He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by...

The full title of this volume is A Collection of Meditations and Devotions, in three parts. I. Meditations on the Creation. II. Meditations and Devotions on the Life of Christ. III. Daily Devotions and Thanks-Givings...

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans