Download or read book Cotton Mather's Verse in English written by Cotton Mather and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most prolific of colonial American writers, Cotton Mather saw almost four hundred of his works published during his lifetime. This edition contains all of Mather's surviving verse written in English, including elegies, epitaphs, simple verse for children, and religious meditations. Introductory discussion of Puritan poetry.