Denise Inge was a leading authority on the 17th century poet and mystic Thomas Traherne. Her Traherne anthology Happiness and Holiness was named in the Spectator's 'Books of the Year' 2008. She published three books on Traherne as well as numerous academic articles, features and reviews for the TLS, the Episcopal New Yorker and the Church Times. She had been a guest speaker at the Hay Festival, Words by the Water, Dartington and Greenbelt and the Ledbury Poetry Festival. She died on Easter Day 2014.
