From Donne to Taylor

“Specifically, my concern here is with the biblical, Protestant poetics informing a major strain of English seventeenth-century religious lyric: the chief characteristic of that poetics can, I suggest, be clearly discerned, and the history of the literary impact traced with some precision — from the quickening of Donne to the developing theory, to the exhaustion of this particular tradition in the American colonial poet Edward Taylor” (Lewalski, Protestant Poetics, pp. 4-5).