Author:Edward Taylor

Edward Taylor
(1642/1645–1729)

A colonial American poet and Puritan minister.

Works

Taylor’s works went unpublished, at his express request, for centuries after his death, until they were re-discovered by Thomas Johnson and published in the New England Quarterly for June 1937. Scattered individual poems were published in the ensuing decades, until Donald Stanford published a complete Poems in 1960.

  • Thomas J. Johnson, “Edward Taylor: A Puritan ‘Sacred Poet’,” New England Quarterly, 10(2), 290–322 (1937) (external scan)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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