The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment
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"The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment" by Michael Wigglesworth is a religious poem published in 1662. This Puritan bestseller depicts Judgment Day in vivid detail, describing how a vengeful God judges and sentences all mankind. The poem examines various categories of people who believe themselves excusable but are nonetheless condemned to Hell. Spanning 224 stanzas, it became phenomenally popular in colonial New England, with
approximately one in twenty residents purchasing a copy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705 |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Dean, John Ward, 1815-1902 |
| Contributor | Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 |
| Title |
The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment With Other Poems |
| Note | Another version of this eBook is available in the collection at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56053 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_Doom |
| Credits |
Produced by Bryan Ness, Chris Pinfield, high-res image from TIA: American Libraries and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Judgment Day -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 58716 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-58716-5 |
| Release Date | Jan 18, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 524 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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