This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. 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 Centuries of Meditations were first printed. There have beensince only miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings.
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