Sinful self, saintly self : the Puritan experience of poetry

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Sinful self, saintly self : the Puritan experience of poetry

Jeffrey A. Hammond

University of Georgia Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-296) and index

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Offers a study of early New England verse in the light of Puritan notions of the nature and use of poetry (the psychology of the saved soul). The book offers a new historical perspective on three major poets of the period - Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor.

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