Junkins, Donald Arthur2018-10-252018-10-2519631963b2119385xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2144/31652Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityThe purpose of this dissertation is to substantiate Edward Taylor's Puritanism. Its methodology is a close analysis of four aspects of his Preparatory Meditations: his poetic theory as it is revealed in the attitude he expresses within the poems toward the poems; his meticulous revisions of the manuscript; his images; and the comparison of fourteen of his Meditations with their corresponding sermons [TRUNCATED]en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.Thesis/Dissertation1171902564328199179398490001161