Thomas Traherne.

This article focuses on the Thomas Traherne, an English poet. Thomas Traherne was born about the year 1636. His family was presumably of Welsh origin, so that one may conjecture a relation of race as well as of temperament with Henry Vaughan of Breconshire and with George Herbert of Montgomery. Thomas attended the local grammar school, and then proceeded to Oxford, England. Here he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1656; Master of Arts, 1661; Bachelor of Divinity, 1669; and was admitted by the Commissioners for the Approbation of Public Preachers to the Rectory of Crednell, alias Creddenhill Co. Hereford, in 1657.