The poems of Edward Taylor
By: edited by Donald E. Stanford.
Contributors: Stanford, Donald E., 1913-
Publisher: University of North Carolina
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Description: 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.
Notes: Reprint, with new pref., of the abridged paperback ed. issued by Yale University Press in l963.