Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Church's Year-Book, Meditations and Devotions from the Resurrection to All Saints' Day
- A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.
- Appendix
- Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation
- Meditations on the Second Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Third Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Fourth Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Fifth Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Sixth Day's Creation
- From George Hickes, A Second Collection of Controversial Letters Relating to the Church of England, and the Church of Rome, As they passed between an Honourable Lady, and Dr. George Hickes. (London, 1710)
- Brooke's account of the discovery of Thomas Traherne's manuscripts
- Church's Year-Book: Manuscript foliation
- Glossary
Brooke's account of the discovery of Thomas Traherne's manuscripts
from Appendix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Church's Year-Book, Meditations and Devotions from the Resurrection to All Saints' Day
- A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.
- Appendix
- Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation
- Meditations on the Second Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Third Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Fourth Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Fifth Day's Creation
- Meditations on the Sixth Day's Creation
- From George Hickes, A Second Collection of Controversial Letters Relating to the Church of England, and the Church of Rome, As they passed between an Honourable Lady, and Dr. George Hickes. (London, 1710)
- Brooke's account of the discovery of Thomas Traherne's manuscripts
- Church's Year-Book: Manuscript foliation
- Glossary
Summary
The Story of the Traherne MSS. by their Finder.’
The announcement in the columns of our contemporary the “Athenaum” of the approaching publication of a fresh manuscript of the lately discovered poet, Thomas Trahern, recalls the curious story which so respectable an authority as the “Quarterly Review” regarded as “one of the most romantic in the annals of English bibliography.”
As the writer of this article was the original discoverer, and many of the details have not yet appeared in print, the following may be of more than passing interest.
It has been my fortune during half a century's study of English poetry, sacred and secular, to make many curious finds. Such was the unique copy of Pope's “Ethic Epistles,” 1743, suppressed by Lord Bolingbroke on Pope's death and now, as Dr Garnett told the writer, justly regarded as the prize of their Pope documents, it having been secured for the British Museum after I had sold it to the late Colonel Grant. Such, also the unique holograph manuscript of Richard Krashaw, containing poems no where else found, and also in the British Museum. Such the unknown first hymnbook of John Wesley issued during his visit to America in 1737, which, bought for half a guinea, has fetched first?20.10(?) and then in 1905,?106 and which went to America, (though not before a fac-simile reprint had been published by the Wesleyans here).
There are minor discoveries, like those of Bishop Ken's unique tracts, but all yield the poem interest and importance to that of the subject of our paper.
Occupied as I have always been in business life, in London, for many years the Saturday half holiday has been spent in the quarters frequented by book lovers and as the volumes purchased from the penny or two penny stall were generally numerous, it follows that they were frequently laid aside for investigation at a more convenient season, and that that season occasionally, was long in coming.
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne<I>Church's Year-Book</I>, <I>A Serious and athetical Contemplation of the Mercies of GOD</I>, [<I>Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation</I>], pp. 513 - 516Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009