tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post2259252521221182235..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Curious and sparkling Traherne--Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-76628772336170090162013-04-22T12:47:43.166-04:002013-04-22T12:47:43.166-04:00Traherne is a pure fountain, certainly!
Perhaps h...Traherne is a pure fountain, certainly!<br /><br />Perhaps he bumped into one of the theological books, or maybe the 1903 poetry collection--the Centuries came out a year after Thompson died, so not those.<br /><br />It makes one wonder how many precious things have been burned or left to rot. Remember the fabulous Book of Durrow being dunked in a trough to make holy water for cows...marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-41314174825944323382013-04-22T12:15:03.770-04:002013-04-22T12:15:03.770-04:00Traherne is one of those inexhaustibles, like Blak...Traherne is one of those inexhaustibles, like Blake: whatever the weariness of my heart, he can refresh me.<br /><br />He does sit oddly in literary time! Like the Beowulf-Poet: very much of his time, and yet, as far as literary history and the stream of poetry goes, they are both 19th Century poets.<br /><br />(Did Francis Thompson read Traherne? I wonder.)Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.com