The First Edition of these Poems is now out of print. A New and Cheaper Edition will be published shortly. TRAHERNE'S "CENTURIES OF MEDITATION The extracts from Traherne's Prose Writings printed in the Introduction to his Poetical Works are quite sufficient to prove that he is no less excellent as a prose writer than as a poet. Indeed it may even be thought that his prose is superior to his verse, inasmuch as it is quite unaffected by the errors of taste which were common to the poets of his period, and from which Traherne was not altogether free. When his "Centuries of Meditation" is published, the fact will be put beyond dispute that as a writer of beautiful and nervous English Traherne has very few superiors and not many equals. I hope to publish shortly the "Centuries of Meditation." The book will be put to press as soon as the names of one hundred and fifty subscribers have been received. The book will be handsomely printed and "got-up," and the price to subscribers will not exceed 7s. 6d. Should sufficient support be forthcoming, this will be followed by a reprint of Traherne's "Christian Ethics," a work of great merit which has been most unjustly neglected and forgotten. Subscribers' names should be sent to BERTRAM DOBELL, 77 Charing Cross Road, London. (First Series) I Sir Philip Sidney Sonnets and Miscellaneous Verse Mary Sidney, Countess Hymn to Astræa, etc. Sidneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with forvers. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Astrophel WILLIAM BROWNE: Britannia's Pastorals, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) Urania, sister unto Astrophel, In whose brave mind, as in a golden coffer, SPENSER: Colin Clout's Come Home Again. AMBORLIAO |