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The poetry of Thomas Traherne marks the conclusion of this look at the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets. It has rightly been noted that he seems to anticipate the Romantic movement by a century, which leads us to wonder how greatly the loss of meaning from what C.S. Lewis called 'the discarded image' factors into the poetics of both romanticism and indeed modernity.
Particularly worthy of note is the longing of transcendence coupled with an inchoate sense of truth and beauty without goodness.
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The poetry of Thomas Traherne marks the conclusion of this look at the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets. It has rightly been noted that he seems to anticipate the Romantic movement by a century, which leads us to wonder how greatly the loss of meaning from what C.S. Lewis called 'the discarded image' factors into the poetics of both romanticism and indeed modernity.
Particularly worthy of note is the longing of transcendence coupled with an inchoate sense of truth and beauty without goodness.
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