The Traherne Association welcomes you to this site which celebrates and promotes the life and work of the poet and spiritual writer Thomas Traherne (c1637 - 1674).

Thomas Traherne: Studies

Allchin, A M; Ridler, Anne; Smith, Julia, Profitable Wonders: Aspects of Thomas Traherne, Oxford, Amate Press 1989

Allitt, John Stewart, Thomas Traherne: Il Poeta-Teologo della Meraviglia e della Felicità, Milan: Edizioni Villadiseriane 2007
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Balakier, James J, Thomas Traherne and the Felicities of the Mind, Amherst, NY, Cambria Press 2010

Blevins, Jacob, An Annotated Bibliography of Thomas Traherne Criticism, 1900-2003, Lewiston, NY, The Edward Mellen Press Ltd 2006

Blevins, Jacob (ed), Re-reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays, Tempe, AZ, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2007

Clements, Arthur L, The Mystical Poetry of Thomas Traherne, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press 1969

Day, Malcolm N, Thomas Traherne, Boston, MA, Twayne 1982

DeNeef, A Leigh, Traherne in Dialogue: Heidegger, Lacan and Derrida, Durham and London, Duke University Press 1988

Dodd, Elizabeth S., Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne’s Poetic Theology, Ashgate 2015

Dodd, Elizabeth S. and Gorman, Cassandra (eds.), Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought, D. S. Brewer 2016
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Dowell, Graham, Enjoying the World: The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, London, Mowbray 1990

Guffey, George R, Concordance of the Poetry of Thomas Traherne, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press 1974
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Inge, Denise, Happiness and Holiness: Thomas Traherne and his Writings, Norwich, Canterbury Press 2008

Inge, Denise, Wanting Like a God: Desire and Freedom in Thomas Traherne, London, SCM Press 2009

Salter, K W, Thomas Traherne: Mystic and Poet, London, Hodder and Stoughton 1964

Sherrington, Alison, Mystical Symbolism in the Poetry of Thomas Traherne, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press 1970

Sluberski, Thomas Richard, A Mind in Frame: The Theological Thought of Thomas Traherne, Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Library Press 2008

Smith, Julia J, ‘Thomas Traherne’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press and online at www.oxforddnb.com 2004-2013
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Stewart, Stanley, The Expanded Voice: The Art of Thomas Traherne, San Marino, CA, Huntington Library Press 1970

Wade, Gladys, Thomas Traherne, with a Selected Bibliography of Criticism by Robert Allerton Parker, Princeton, NJ, reprinted London, Octagon Books 1944; 1969
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Wohrer, Franz K, Thomas Traherne: The Growth of a Mystic’s Mind, Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Press 1982