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A Study Guide for Edward Taylor's "Huswifery" - Gale
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Huswifery
Edward Taylor
1939
Introduction
The Puritan poet and minister Edward Taylor wrote Huswifery
sometime in the late seventeenth century, probably in the mid-1680s, when he had begun writing verse again in earnest. It is a meditative religious poem in which Taylor's speaker becomes a metaphorical spinning wheel on which God will weave a fabric for his glory. It is a poem of submission and worship, with a sense of longing for relationship with God.
Huswifery
is among Taylor's best-known works, and it is often anthologized because of its graceful treatment of an important theme in the literature and thought of its time. The poem conveys the Puritan mindset and expresses basic religious beliefs and how they were internalized by early Americans who adhered to them. The poem was first published in 1939 and appears in numerous collections, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1983), where the poem appears with the title's spelling modernized as Housewifery.
The title refers to daily domestic activities, such as weaving, suggesting the intimate connection between a Puritan's faith and his or her everyday life and thoughts. Taylor's own knowledge of spinning would have come at least from his life in rural settings, both in childhood and later in adulthood in America, but some historians also believe he worked in England for a weaver's shop in the nearby town of Hinckley. The specifics of the poet's background knowledge are less important than the elaborate metaphor that he creates in the
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