Books Written or Edited by Bertram Dobell
THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS TRAHERNE
Now first published from the original Manuscripts
*** The first edition of these Poems is now nearly out of print.
"Let all lovers of good poetry rejoice with Mr. Dobell, for he has rescued a poet out of the dust and advanced him to a deserved seat beside two such men as Herbert and Vaughan."
"This handsome book is one for which all lovers of good literature will be very grateful to Mr. Dobell. His sagacity and perseverance solved the problem of authorship; he has enriched the volume with an admirable introduction: and— last but not least—he has produced it in a style which makes it a pleasure to handle and to read."—The Week's Survey.
"A new poet is always wonderful, but a poet lost these two hundred and fifty years, now re-discovered and found to have spoken words vivid and warm with meaning for our generation—this is more wonderful still. Yet this is what has been given us to behold in the stately and artfully antique-appearing volume in which Mr. Bertram Dobell has set forth the poetical works of Thomas Traherne. To the short list of mid-seventeenth century lyrists—Vaughan, Herbert, Crashaw—must now be added the name of this other poet of the gentle life. . . . I have not done justice to Mr. Dobell's literary skill in identifying Traherne's work, nor can I overpraise his enthusiastic analysis of the poet's merits. . . . Mr. Dobell has undoubtedly done us a real service."— Mr. W. D. MacClintock, in The Dial, a Literary Review (Chicago).
Two vols., post 8vo, cloth, 12s. 6d.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON ("B.V.")
With a Memoir of the Author, and two portraits
