biography
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| lived:
| (1645–1729)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman and poet, born near Coventry, West Midlands, C England, UK. Refusing to take the oath of conformity required of English schoolteachers, he emigrated to Massachusetts (1668), graduated from Harvard (1671), and became a physician and pastor in Westfield, MA, where he remained to the end of his life. At his death he left a manuscript of his ‘Poetical Works’. His poems, many on religious themes, were not published until the late 1930s, at which time he was recognized as the finest American poet of the 17th-c. A comprehensive edition, The Poems of Edward Taylor, appeared in 1960. |
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