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Popular measures : poetry and church order in seventeenth-century Massachusetts by Amy M. E. Morris is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Popular Measures examines the influence of Congregationalist church practices on poetry and poetics in early New England. It considers how the rejection of set prayers, and the privileging of more spontaneous oral forms (such as the plain-style sermon and the conversion narrative) in colonial churches influenced the style of locally written religious verse. The book consists of an overview of church practices and their implications for poetry, followed by a series of case studies focusing on tex
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- Author
- Amy M. E. Morris
- Publisher
- Newark: University of Delaware Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780874138658
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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