The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry / Edition 1

by Perry Miller

Overview

Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Edward Taylor among them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231054195
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/22/1982
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	8.06(w) x 8.08(h) x 0.67(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter One: History
1. Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford
2. A Defense of the Answer, by Thomas Shepard
3. Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Savior, by Edward Johnson
4. Journal, by John Winthrop
5. The Antinomian Crisis, by John Winthrop
6. A General Introduction, by Cotton Mather
Chapter Two: State and Society
1. A Model of Christian Charity, by John Winthrop
2. Limitation of Government, by John Cotton
3. Hartford Election Sermon, by Thomas Hooker
4. Speech to the General Court, by John Winthrop
5. The Simple Cobler of Aggawam, by Nathaniel Ward
6. Nehemiah on the Wall, by Jonathan Mitchell
7. New England's True Interest, by William Stoughton
8. The Happiness of a People, by William Hubbard
9. Vindication of the Government of New England Churches, by John Wise
10. A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission, by Jonathan Mayhew
Chapter Three: This World and the Next
1. The Covenant of Grace, by Thomas Shepard
2. The Lesson of the Covenant, for England and New England, by Peter Bulkeley
3. A True Sight of Sin, by Thomas Hooker
4. Repentant Sinners and Their Ministers, by Thomas Hooker
5. Christian Calling, by John Cotton
6. Man Knows Not His Time, by Increase Mather
7. The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence, by Urian Oakes
8. Phaenomena, by Samuel Sewall
9. Bonifacius, by Cotton Mather
10. Concerning Ancestors, by Solomon Stoddard
Chapter Four: Personal Narrative
1. Autobiography, by Thomas Shepard
2. Richard Mather, by Increase Mather
3. Diary, by Samuel Sewall
4. The Redeemed Captive, by John Williams
Chapter Five: Poetry
1. Several Poems, by Anne Bradstreet
2. Meditations, by Anne Bradstreet
3. The Day of Doom, by Michael Wigglesworth
4. God's Controversy with New England, by Michael Wigglesworth
5. A Threnodia, by E.B.
6. God's Determinations Touching His Elect, by Edward Taylor
7. Poems and Sacramental Meditations, by Edward Taylor
Chapter Six: Literary and Educational Ideals
1. The Bay Psalm Book, by Richard Mather
2. New England's First Fruits
3. The Praise of Eloquence, by Michael Wigglesworth
4. Of Style, by Cotton Mather

What People are Saying About This

Edmund S Morgan

The indispensable basic anthology.

Larzer Ziff

The American Puritan movement is the essential starting point for all considerations of American culture and no book in print provides a better introduction to it than does this one.

William A. Clebsch

Cunningly chosen and adroitly presented, these documentary samples reveal the New England Puritan's life in its true and complex dimensions….Whether one wants a first glimpse or a studied panorama, here is the clearest window through which to look into a way of being human that was as grand as it was grueling.

Larver Ziff

The American Puritan movement is the essential starting point for all considerations of American culture and no book in print provides a better introduction to it than does this one.
—Larver Ziff

Sacvan Bercovitch

Still the best collection of American Puritan writings, selected by the foremost American intellectual historian of our century.

Editorial Reviews

The American Puritan movement is the essential starting point for all considerations of American culture and no book in print provides a better introduction to it than does this one.

Larzer Ziff

The best collection of American Puritan writings, selected by the foremost American intellectual historian of our century.

Sacvan Bercovitch