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Edward Taylor (c.1642 – June 29, 1729) was a colonial American poet, ... His most important poems, the first sections of Preparatory Meditations (1682–1725) ...
Edward Taylor (c. 1642 to 1729) emigrated to America in 1662 in defiance of the restoration of the English monarchy. A Harvard-educated minister, Taylor did not write his poems for publication but as a private act to prepare for each holy communion. His poems were not discovered until the early 20th century; they were published in 1937.
"My lovely one I fain would love thee much, but all my Love is none at all I see." - Edward Taylor, "Preparatory Meditation 12" See also. Repetition (rhetorical device)
Soon Puritan ministers like Edward Taylor began to write meditations in verse, based on lines from the Bible and on sense perceptions, both allegorical of the greater glory of God. Anne Bradstreet provided the first published meditations purely based on the senses, celebrating nature's beauties as the creation of God.
Divine Meditations may refer to: Divine Meditations, 1572 work by Thomas Palfreyman; Divine Meditations, 1622 series of poems by John Hagthorpe;
Edward Taylor (music writer) (1784–1863), English singer, writer on music, and Gresham Professor of Music; Edward R. Taylor (1838–1911), English artist and educator; Edward Taylor (scriptwriter) (born 1931), writer of the BBC radio comedy series The Men from the Ministry; Eddie Taylor (1923–1985), American blues guitarist and singer
Thomas Traherne (/ t r ə ˈ h ɑːr n /; 1636 or 1637 – c. 27 September 1674) was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer.The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 October (the anniversary of his burial in 1674) or on 27 September.
Eclecticism is shown by the presence of: Alfred Gurney, a clerical friend of Christina Rossetti; Edward Carpenter, Fabian socialist and homosexual; Frederic W. H. Myers, academic and psychic researcher; John Addington Symonds, aesthete; Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, writer on freemasonry and Wagner; Darrell Figgis, better known as a novelist and ...