Bibliographical references included in appendices.

Other Writings of Edward Taylor -- Prologue -- Preparatory Meditations (first series) -- Preparatory Meditations (second series) -- Gods Determinations -- Miscellaneous Poems: -- When Let by rain -- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly -- Upon a Wasp Child with Cold -- Huswifery -- Another upon the Same -- Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children -- The Ebb and Flow -- Upon the Sweeping Flood.

Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937. The intellectual brilliance and the emotional intensity of his poetical meditations have led critics to compare him to John Donne and George Herbert. These poems are now recognized as one of the great achievements in American devotional literature.