The Michael Wigglesworth Page

Memento Mori Skeleton

( 1631-1705 )


Major Works
Poems of Michael Wigglesworth was edited by Ronald A. Bosco. University Press of America, 1989.
The Day of Doom ( 1662 ). Reprint edited by J. W. Dean and W. H. Burr, 1867. New printing with an introduction by Kenneth Murdock. Spiral, 1929.
Meat Out of the Eater ( 1670; 1689 ).
Riddles Unriddles, or, Christian Paradoxes( 1689 ).
Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657: The Conscience of a Puritan. Edited by Edmund S. Morgan. Peter Smith, 1970.

About Wigglesworth
Richard Crowder, No Featherbed in Heaven: A Biography of Michael Wigglesworth. Michigan State, 1961.
About Michael Wigglesworth and His Poetry

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