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

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvii, 343 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Foreword / Harrison T. Meserole -- Part I. Puritan aesthetics and society -- 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 -- Part II. Individual achievements : selected poets -- 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 -- Part III. Genres : selected poetic forms -- 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.Subjects: 1600-1775American poetry Puritan authors History and criticism. American poetry Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism.American poetry New England History and criticism. Puritans New England Intellectual life 17th century. American poetry English influences.Aesthetics, Modern 17th century. Poetics History 17th century. Puritan movements in literature.American poetry Puritan authors History and criticism. American poetry Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticismAmerican poetry.