Edward Taylor
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Edward Taylor's poem "Meditation 150 (Second Series)" contradicts much of what we believe that we know about Puritan belief and worship. The images that American schoolchildren grow up with of dour men and obedient wives is hard to square with the sensuous - and highly feminine - imagery that we are presented with in this poem, one of the many works that Taylor wrote as a way to explore his own faith or as "Preparatory Meditations Before My Approach to the Lord's Supper."Taylor was born in England but emigrated to America where he would be freer to follow his Congregationalist beliefs. He attended Harvard and afterward became a minister in what was then the frontier of Westfield, Massachusetts, where he married twice, fathered 13 children, and produced 400 pages of poetry on the grace of God and the drama of redemption. This mediation is typical of his poetry (and indeed typical of his age) in its metaphysical extravagance and the extended use of metaphor in the form of a con
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