John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor, Presented on New-Years-Day[2]
Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, a "doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry (1903), that "attained immediately a phenomenal popularity. Eighteen hundred copies were sold within a year, and for the next century it held a secure place in [New England]
Puritan households. As late as 1828 it was stated that many aged persons were still alive who could repeat it, as it had been taught them with their catechism; and the more widely one reads in the voluminous sermons of that generation, the more fair will its representation of prevailing theology in
New England appear."[3] English-born clergyman published in New England.
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 14, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
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ISBN0-19-860634-6.
^Trent, William P.; Wells, Benjamin W. (1903). Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710 (Single-volume ed.). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. pp. 47–48.{{
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^Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor, Presented on New-Years-Day[2]
Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, a "doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry (1903), that "attained immediately a phenomenal popularity. Eighteen hundred copies were sold within a year, and for the next century it held a secure place in [New England]
Puritan households. As late as 1828 it was stated that many aged persons were still alive who could repeat it, as it had been taught them with their catechism; and the more widely one reads in the voluminous sermons of that generation, the more fair will its representation of prevailing theology in
New England appear."[3] English-born clergyman published in New England.
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 14, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
^
abCox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
ISBN0-19-860634-6.
^Trent, William P.; Wells, Benjamin W. (1903). Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710 (Single-volume ed.). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. pp. 47–48.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
^Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press