Puritan poets and poetics : seventeenth-century American poetry in theory and practice / Peter White, editor ; Harrison T. Meserole, advisory editor. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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