For Taylor was an altogether orthodox, an old-fashioned Puritan.2 The concerns he shares with earlier American Puritans inspire his protests against deadness of heart, his eight communal elegies, his invocations of David, his virtuoso acrostics and shape verse. (The initial letters of his aquot;acrostic Chronogramaquot; compose a lengthy roman numeral whose digits add up to the year of Charles Chauncya#39;s death.) But on one count Taylor differed from his contemporaries and from earlier anbsp;...
Title | : | Colonial American Poetry |
Author | : | Kenneth Silverman |
Publisher | : | - 1968 |
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