Reading Puritan Poetry

The Weariness of the Self

Rousseau's Confessions

An interesting essay encouraging more reading of Puritan poetry. I read the poems of Edward Taylor last year, after first encountering them in an anthology of American religious poetry (edited by Harold Bloom for the Library of America) and being astounded at his metaphors and similes.

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