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en-wikipedia-org-1630		Edward Taylor - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1852	178	63	Johnson discovered a 7,000-page quarto manuscript of Taylor's poetry in the library of Yale University and published a selection from it in The New England Quarterly. Grabo, "established [Taylor] almost at once and without quibble as not only America's finest colonial poet, but as one of the most striking writers in the whole range of American literature."[5] His most important poems, the first sections of Preparatory Meditations (1682–1725) and God's Determinations Touching His Elect and the Elects Combat in Their Conversion and Coming up to God in Christ: Together with the Comfortable Effects Thereof (c. When a first selection of his work was published, he was called simply "A Puritan sacred poet".[11] Soon after, however, he was being described as "an American metaphysical"[12] and his poetry typified as 'Colonial Baroque'.[13] In his work appear such typically Baroque elements as acrostic verse, word play and use of conceits, as well as spoken meditations reminiscent of George Herbert.[14] A later study compared his approach to that of such Baroque Poets as Giambattista Marino and Francisco de Quevedo, who in his time were influencing the Spanish-language poets of the New World.[15]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1630.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1630.txt