CR Episode 158: Introduction to Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne, detail from stained glass at Audley Chantry, by Thomas Denny

Released on 16 January 2023:
https://criticalreadings.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cr20230116.mp3

The panel reads three poems by Thomas Traherne, a late seventeenth-century English poet of imaginative, reflective, and speculative verse, whose manuscripts were discovered by happenstance and saved from the refuse pit in the late nineteenth century.