Selected Poetry of Edward Taylor (ca. 1642-1729)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2012, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
- Huswifery
- I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
- The Preface
- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
- Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
Notes on Life and Works
- Guruswamy, Rosemay Fithian. The Poems of Edward Taylor: a reference guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
- Hammond, Jeffrey A. American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Taylor, Edward. The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
- --. Edward Taylor's Gods determinations and Prepatory Meditations: a critical edition. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003.
- --. The Poems of Edward Taylor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
- --. Early New England Meditative Poetry: Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.
- Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1-2: To 1940. American Council of Learned Societies, 1944-1958.
Biographical information
Given name: Edward
Family name: Taylor
Birth date: ca. 1642
Death date: 29 June 1729
Nationality: American
Family relations
wife: Elizabeth Fitch
wife: Ruth Wyllys
grandson: Ezra Stiles
Education: Harvard to 1671
Religions
Puritan
Strict Congregationalist
Honour: Master of Arts, Harvard: 1720
Literary period: Colonial
Occupations
Physician
Minister
Poet
Residences
Sketchley, Leicestershire: 1642
New England, Boston: 1668
Westfield, Massachusetts: 1671 to 1729
Buried at: Westfield, Massachusetts
