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The Poems of Edward Taylor /

Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937. The intellectual brilliance and the emotional intensity of his poetical meditations have led critics to compare him to John Don...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729
Other Authors: Stanford, Donald E. (Donald Elwin), 1913-1998
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937. The intellectual brilliance and the emotional intensity of his poetical meditations have led critics to compare him to John Donne and George Herbert. These poems are now recognized as one of the great achievements in American devotional literature.
Item Description:Reprint, with new preface, of the abridged paperback ed. issued by Yale University Press in l963.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages).
ISBN:9781469659947