Thomas Traherne

Bibliography

Other info : Furtherreading

• Roman Forgeries, Or, A True Account of False Records Discovering the Impostures and Counterfeit Antiquities of the Church of Rome (London: Printed by S. & B. Griffin for Jonathan Edwin, 1673).
• Christian Ethicks: Or, Divine Morality. Opening the Way to Blessedness, By the Rules of Vertue and Reason (London: Printed for Jonathan Edwin, 1675).
• A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, In Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same (London: Printed for Samuel Keble, 1699).

Editions

• • The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne 1636?-1674, edited by Bertram Dobell (London: Dobell, 1903).
  • Centuries of Meditations, edited by Dobell (London: Dobell, 1908).
  • Traherne's Poems of Felicity, edited by H. I. Bell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910).
  • The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, faithfully reprinted from the Author's Original Manuscript, together with Poems of Felicity, reprinted from the Burney manuscript, and Poems from Various Sources, edited by Gladys I. Wade (London: P. J. & A. E. Dobell, 1932).
  • A Serious and Pathetic Contemplation of the Mercies of God, In Several most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same, edited by Roy Daniells (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1941).
  • Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings, 2 volumes, edited by H. M. Margoliouth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958).
  • Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation, edited by George Robert Guffey (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1966).
  • Poems, Centuries, and Three Thanksgivings, edited by Anne Ridler (London: Oxford University Press, 1966).
  • Christian Ethicks, edited by Carol L. Marks and Guffey (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968).
  • Commentaries of Heaven: The Poems, edited by D. D. C. Chambers (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg, 1989).

Other

• Meditations on the Creation, in A Collection of Meditations and Devotions, in Three Parts (London: Published by Nathaniel Spinkes. Printed for D. Midwinter, 1717)

The manuscript for Traherne's "Centuries," the Dobell Folio (also called the "Commonplace Book"), "The Church's Year Book," and the "Early Notebook" (also called Philip Traherne's Notebook) are at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Burney Manuscript (also known as "Poems of Felicity") is at the British Library, London. The manuscript for Traherne's "Select Meditations" is in the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Library, New Haven.