Edward Taylor studies from 1971-1984 : an analysis and annotated bibliography

Abstract

In the past fifteen years Edward Taylor has been accepted as a major figure not only in colonial literature but in American literature generally, and his poems are even found today in larger studies of world literature. Before 1971, however, when two major bibliographic studies on Taylor were published, most research on his work included apologies for his shortcomings as a poet. Taylor's reputation has improved for three reasons: first, a bibliographic essay by Norman S. Grabo placed Taylor among the fifteen most significant American authors before 1900; second, a comprehensive, annotated bibliography by Constance J. Gefvert made the depth and breadth of Taylor scholarship and criticism clear for the first time; and third, recent trends toward appropriating continental literary criticism in the United States have opened up new ways to examine Taylor's poetry. The annotated bibliography includes primary sources--editions of Taylor's works, letters, first publication of poems in works not by Taylor, first publication of other works and manuscripts; and secondary sources--bibliographies, biography and genealogy, critical books, critical articles in books, critical articles in periodicals, and dissertations. Items in each section of the bibliography are arranged alphabetically.