Thomas Traherne | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 82 pages of analysis & critique of Thomas Traherne.

Thomas Traherne | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 82 pages of analysis & critique of Thomas Traherne.
This section contains 23,169 words
(approx. 78 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Malcolm M. Day

SOURCE: Day, Malcolm M. “A Spokesman for Felicity,” and “Christian Ethicks.” In Thomas Traherne, pp. 1-19; 20-53. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.

In the following essay, Day provides an overview of Traherne's life and works, and examines Christian Ethicks in terms of its thought, structure, and philosophy.

A Spokesman for Felicity

A Short Life

Over the last fifteen to twenty years we have learned a few new facts about Thomas Traherne's (1637-1674) life, but we still have so little positive information that only the broadest generalizations can be made concerning his biography and its relation to what he wrote. H. M. Margoliouth in his definitive edition of Traherne (1958) published all the information then known, and except for some details concerning Traherne's Credenhill residency and some matters of mistaken attribution and chronology, there is not much to change in his account.1 We do know enough, however, to get some idea of...

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This section contains 23,169 words
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