–MWP THE DAY OF DOOMġ: Still was the night, serene and bright, The security of the World before Christ’s coming to judgement. I strongly recommend it to your careful reading, especially if you wish to understand the theological fervency and emphasis of this period. According to the Norton Anthology of American Literature (Volume 1), “about one out of every twenty persons in New England bought it”.Īs late as 1828 it was stated that many aged persons were still alive who could repeat it, as it had been taught them with their catechism and the more widely one reads in the voluminous sermons of that generation, the more fair will its representation of prevailing theology in New England appear.” The poem is the longest poem of the Colonial Period, with two hundred and twenty-four stanzas. From Wiki: Eighteen hundred copies were sold within a year, and for the next century it held a secure place in New England Puritan households”. Many, many children memorized this entire poem. “The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment” written in 1662, by By Michael Wigglesworth, (1631–1705), was once one of the most popular books in Puritan New England.
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