Thomas Traherne fu un poeta e religioso inglese i cui scritti sono caratterizzati da una spiritualità intensa e accademica. La sua opera, che esplora frequentemente la gloria della creazione e un rapporto intimo con Dio, trasmette un amore ardente, quasi infantile, per il divino. La poesia di Traherne, associata ai poeti metafisici, presenta temi affini a scrittori successivi come William Blake e Walt Whitman. Il suo amore per il mondo naturale evoca il Romanticismo due secoli prima del movimento stesso.
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Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. Centuries, his best known work, was first published in 1908 after having been miraculously discovered in manuscript ten years earlier. Perhaps more than any spiritual writer of his age, Traherne is profoundly cognizant of the Glory of the Lord as it abides in Creation. His writing conveys an ardent, almost childlike love of God comparable to similar themes in the works of such later poets as William Blake, Walt Whitman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins