Design in Puritan American literature /William J. Scheick.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Necessity of Language; Words Like Wooden Horses William Bradford and Thomas Morton; Double-Talk Renaissance and Reformed Traditions; Concealed Verbal Artistry Richard Mather and Edward Taylor; 2. The Winding Sheet of Meditative Verse; The Wrack of Mortal Poets Anne Bradstreet's Contemplations -- Unfolding the Twisting Serpent Edward Taylor's Meditation 1.19 -- 3. Laughter and Death; All in Jest Nathaniel Ward's The Simple Cobler; Dissolving Stones Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard; 4. Breaking Verbal Icons.

Nature, Reason, and Language Jonathan Edwards in ReactionFrom Something to Nothing to Everything Edwards's Early Sermons; 5. Islands of Meaning; Eighteenth-Century Allegory or Satire? Nathan Fiske's An Allegorical Description -- The Letter Killeth Edward Bellamy's To Whom This May Come -- Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Z.