Thomas Traherne (1636/7-1674) was a metaphysical poet and religious writer born in Hereford the son of a shoemaker.

Denise Inge gave a talk at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival about Traherne's lost manuscripts: "At the turn of the twenty-first century six lost works of the seventeenth-century Herefordshire poet Thomas Traherne were found in London and Washington DC. Long hailed as a poet of innocence, nature and childhood, a new Traherne now emerges full of passion and politics, an advocate of desire and of human freedom."

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