Puritan poets and poetics : seventeenth-century American poetry in theory and practice /

Puritan poets and poetics : seventeenth-century American poetry in theory and practice / [print] Peter White, editor ; Harrison T. Meserole, advisory editor. - University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)1985. - xvii, 343 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Printing and publishing in America from Daye to Zenger Puritan women poets in America Religion in Puritan poetry : the doctrine of accommodation Prophetic visions : typology and colonial American poetry The honeyed knot of Puritan aesthetics Puritan iconography : the art of Edward Taylor's Gods determinations Investigating "the America of nature" : alchemy in early American poetry In the margin : the image of women in early Puritan poetry The wounds upon Bathsheba : Anne Bradstreet's prophetic art The Danforths : Puritan poets in the woods of Arcadia To keep in memory : the poetry of Edward Johnson Mutuall sweet content : the love poetry of John Saffin Edward Taylor, the acting poet Cannibals and Turks : Benjamin Thompson's image of the Native American Petrus Ramus and Michael Wigglesworth : the logic of poetic structure Seventeenth-century almanac verse Anagrams and acrostics : Puritan poetic wit Baroque free verse in New England and Pennsylvania Wit, humor, and satire in seventeenth-century American poetry Tombless virtue and hidden text : New England Puritan funeral elegies Voces clamantium in deserto : Latin verse of the Puritans Meditative poetry in New England Harrison T. Meserole -- Jayne K. Kribbs -- Pattie Cowell -- Mason I. Lowance,Jr. -- Karen E. Rowe -- Michael Clark -- Lynn M. Haims -- Cheryl Z. Oreovicz -- Cheryl Walker -- Rosamond R. Rosenmeier -- Robert Daly -- Jesper Rosenmeier -- Kathryn Zabelle Derounian -- Karl Keller -- Peter White -- Alan H. Pope -- Robert Secor -- Jeffrey Walker -- Harold Jantz -- Robert D. Arner -- William J. Scheick -- Lawrence Rosenwald -- Ursula Brumm.



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American poetry--Puritan authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--New England
American poetry--English influences.
Puritan movements in literature.

PS153 PS153.M578.P875 1985