The American Puritans, their prose and poetry by Perry Miller

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The American Puritans, their Prose and Poetry

by Perry Miller

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Info:	Garden City (N.Y.): Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Softbound, 346pp. illus. 18 cm. [1st ed.]
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Useful anthology of Puritan writing, including excerpts of historical writing, political and religious controversy, and more literary writing (

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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.

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