The Poems of Edward Taylor Paperback – June 1, 1989

Very cool 😎

I bought this volume because of a poem that changed my life and helped me through my parents' death, "Upon Wedlock and Death of Children." It is the most moving and among the most innovative and euphonic poems I have ever encountered. Taylor's skill with language is masterful, and as a Christian I find his content to be above reproach. I think that any spiritual person will find a magnificent depth of thought and imagery from reading this collection, and any secular person will be seriously challenged to rethink the traditional view of the Puritans as stifling and rigid. Anyone who is interested in language and poetry will learn a great deal and be fulfilled by studying Taylor's craft.

I am very excited to have this book of poems by Edward Taylor. I think there was hardly ever so passionate a poet.

Edward Taylor was my Great Grandpa!I look forward reading his poems over & over!How does Amazon publish them and not my family?

The paperback and hardback editions of Taylor's Poems are NOT the same. The paperback has only about half of the poems. It does not even contain the complete Prepratory Meditations. Unless you want a "Selected Poems" approach, buy the hardback.

As another reviewer said, the hard bound is the longer and more complete version. I took the hard bound out from the library and compared it with Daniel Patterson’s Critical Edition of Edward Taylor’s God’s Determination and Preparatory Meditations that I also took out of the library. I am purchasing Patterson’s Kindle version and not Stanford’s since Stanford’s Kindle edition may not include all of the second series of Preparatory Meditations. I like to have digital editions because it is possible to run word searches on them.