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The text. Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations, ed. Bertram Dobell (London, 1908), scan of the University of Toronto copy; Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations, transcription of the 1908 edition, Christian Classics Ethereal Library; Centuries of Meditations, P. J. and A. E. Dobell printing of 1934 (Northrop Frye’s copy); The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Bertram Dobell (London, 1903; issue of 1906).

The manuscript. Bodleian Library, Archives and Manuscripts, catalogue of MS Eng. th. e. 50; Peter Beal et al., Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, Thomas Traherne, manuscript entries; CELM, Bodleian Library, MSS Eng. th.; CELM, Bodleian Library, MSS Eng. poet.; CELM, British Library manuscripts; The Oxford Traherne, Traherne’s manuscripts.

Life and discovery. Julia J. Smith, “Traherne, Thomas (c. 1637-1674)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Peter Beal, CELM introduction, “Thomas Traherne”; The Oxford Traherne, About Thomas Traherne; Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, vol. II (1692), EEBO-TCP text; A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God (1699), EEBO-TCP text; Roman Forgeries (1673), Oxford Text Archive; Brooke’s account of the discovery of Thomas Traherne’s manuscripts, in The Works of Thomas Traherne IV; Jan Ross (ed.), The Works of Thomas Traherne V; Introduction to The Works of Thomas Traherne V; Thomas Traherne Association, Who was Traherne?; Thomas Traherne Association, Major writings; Thomas Traherne Association, Reading list; Brasenose College Library, Discovering Traherne; Victorian Web, Bertram Dobell and Traherne; Bertram Dobell, Wikipedia; Jeremy Maule, Wikipedia; St Mary with St Alban, Teddington, Thomas Traherne; The Oxford Traherne, volume plan.

Sources and context. Pico della Mirandola, Oratio, Latin text, The Latin Library; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola”; M. V. Dougherty, Pico in English; John Everard (trans.), The Divine Pymander, the tenth book; Plotinus, Enneads I.6, trans. Stephen MacKenna; Plotinus, Enneads V.8, trans. Stephen MacKenna; Ralph Cudworth, A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons (1647), Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook; John Smith, Select Discourses (1660), Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook; Alexandre Koyré, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, chapter VI; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 3; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 14; René Descartes, Meditations, trans. John Veitch; Augustine, Confessions I, The Latin Library; Augustine, Confessions XIII, The Latin Library; Augustine, City of God XIX, New Advent; Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 38, New Advent; Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job II; Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus III, New Advent; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I q.104, New Advent; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I-II q.1, New Advent; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae III q.15, New Advent; Thomas à Kempis, Imitatio Christi III, The Latin Library; Disticha Catonis, The Latin Library; Plutarch, De superstitione, LacusCurtius; Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders, Attalus; Philippe de Mornay, A Woorke concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion (1587), EEBO; The Thirty-Nine Articles, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom; The Catechism of the Book of Common Prayer, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom; The Westminster Shorter Catechism, in Schaff, Creeds of Christendom; Denise Inge, “On Becoming Anglican”, Journal of Anglican Studies 14.1 (2016); John Earle, Microcosmography; Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici; Henry Vaughan, “The Retreate”, Representative Poetry Online; William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”, Poetry Foundation; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Project Gutenberg; Book of the Twenty-Four Philosophers, Wikipedia; Peter Sterry, Wikipedia; Theophilus Gale, Wikipedia.

Reception. The Athenaeum, no. 3957, 29 August 1903; The Athenaeum 1903, bound volume; The Spectator, vol. 101, no. 4177, 18 July 1908, “Profitable Wonders”; The Spectator, index for July-December 1908; W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago (1918); Gladys E. Willett, Traherne (An Essay) (1919); W. R. Inge, The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought (1926); Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy; K. W. Salter, Thomas Traherne: Mystic and Poet (1964); C. S. Lewis and his Dobell edition of Traherne’s Centuries, Surprised by Traherne; Arend Smilde, Lewisiana, quotations in The Screwtape Letters; C. S. Lewis, preface to The Screwtape Letters; Guidelines for Spiritual Reading from C. S. Lewis, Inklings Forever; Sehnsucht 14, on Lewis’s reading lists; Dorothy Sayers compares Traherne to Dante and Wordsworth, Surprised by Traherne; Paul Murray, T. S. Eliot and Mysticism, introduction; Traherne’s technique of repetition (on Louis L. Martz), Surprised by Traherne; Professor Martz’s structural study of Traherne’s Centuries, Surprised by Traherne; Carol L. Marks, “Thomas Traherne and Cambridge Platonism”, PMLA 81 (1966); Carol L. Marks, “Thomas Traherne and Hermes Trismegistus”, Renaissance News 19 (1966); Denise Inge, Wanting Like a God (SCM Press); Review of Wanting Like a God, Journal of Theological Studies; Elizabeth S. Dodd and Cassandra Gorman (eds), Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought; Kathryn Murphy, Oxford English Faculty; Kathryn Murphy, “Thomas Traherne, Thomas Hobbes, and the Rhetoric of Realism”; Richard Willmott, Three Choirs Festival talk (2017); Thomas Traherne Association; The Oxford Traherne, Traherne 350 events; Thomas Traherne Association, Each Jubilant Chord; Andrew Burn, notes to Finzi’s Dies Natalis, Hyperion; Matthew McCullough, “A History and Analysis of Gerald Finzi’s Dies Natalis”, British Music Society; Each Jubilant Chord, Gavin Bryars; Bienen School of Music, Grammy awards 2018; The Crossing, The Fifth Century; Each Jubilant Chord, Mike Heron; Douglas Harding and Traherne, headless.org; Hilary Davies, the Audley Chantry windows, Beshara Magazine; Thomas Traherne Association, Places of interest; St Paul’s Cathedral, service sheet for October 2024 (calendar of the Church of England); Church of England, calendar; The Episcopal Church, A Great Cloud of Witnesses; UK Reading Experience Database, W. H. Hudson reading Traherne.