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The Bulletin THEOF THE CONGREGA BULLETINTIONAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES SECOND SERIES | VOL. 11 NO. 1 | 2015 5 From the Director 11 Poetry of Dissent: An Interview 16 Congregationalists in London with George Southcombe 6 “Thy Love Enflame In Mee”: 18 Banned in Boston: William How a Puritan Pastor’s 13 From Whence Comes a Poem? Pynchon’s The Meritorious Poetry Shaped My Life Price of Our Redemption 1 COVER Poetry Collection: Congregational Library and Archives. Photograph by: Sari Mauro RIGHT Congregational House. Photograph by: Leise Jones Photography The Bulletin is a journal, published three times a year by the Congregational Library and Archives, covering the history and significance of the Congregational tradition. To respond to articles in this issue, email us at [email protected]. The Bulletin (ISSN 0010-5821). Copies are sent to all members. Memberships are: $325 sustainer; $200/$150 supporter dual/individual; contributor $80/$50 dual/individual; $25 student. Reprints of this issue are available. Write or call Congregational Library and Archives, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108; 617-523-0470 ext. 230; or email [email protected]. Printed in the U.S.A. The Congregational Library and Archives strives to enliven a tradition of care for the world’s future by preserving and interpreting the stories of the past and to serve anyone desiring to learn more about one of the nation’s oldest and most influential religious traditions and has been since its founding in 1853. The Library is located just down from the Massachusetts State House in Congregational House at 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 From the Director 6 “Thy Love Enflame In Mee”: How a Puritan Pastor’s Poetry Shaped My Life by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe 11 Poetry of Dissent: An Interview with George Southcombe 13 From Whence Comes a Poem? by Charles Harper 16 Congregationalists in London by Margret Bendroth 18 Banned in Boston: William Pynchon’s The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption by David M. Powers THE AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION THE CONGREGatIONAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR SECRETARY Frederick Balfour Richard Elliott VICE CHAIR TREASURER Charles Hambrick-Stowe Stephen Silver Christopher Bartel Richard Harter Elizabeth C. Nordbeck Roger Burke James A. Hopkins Marjorie Royle Norman Erlendson Nicholas L. Iacuzio Stephen R. Silver Stephen C. Gray S.C. Campbell Lovett Barbara Brown Zikmund EMERITUS EMERITUS Arvel M. Steece Harold Worthley STAFF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DIGITAL ARCHIVIST Margaret Bendroth Sari Mauro LIBRARIAN ARCHIVIST Claudette Newhall Cristina Prochilo DIGITAL PROJECT ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN FOR SPECIALIST/WEBMASTER CATALOGING AND REFERENCE Robin Duckworth Steven Picazio DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT ARCHIVIST Cary Hewitt Jessica Steytler 4 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Margaret Bendroth FROM THE DIRECTOR Poetry isn’t probably the first thing that Dissenters whose angular and angry writings comes to mind about Congregationalists. There’s skewered the unwary and unjust. The list goes on: that nearly indelible image of Puritans frowning at Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Katherine anything happy or fun—far from the truth of course— Lee Bates, who published the text to “America the and then the generations that followed, staunch Beautiful” in the Congregationalist in 1895, and if social reformers and theologians, missionaries and we stretch things a bit, even Emily Dickinson. ecumenists, all in all fairly serious folk. The spiritual tradition continues today, But as we learn in this issue of the Bulletin and in this issue is the contemporary example of poetry is at the heart of our tradition. Puritans Charles Harper, who gave a reading in the Library like Edward Taylor, who is featured in this edition, this past fall. Without a doubt there are many more wrote achingly beautiful expressions of devotion poets out there, some lost to historical obscurity to God, as did other colonial-era figures like Anne and others, perhaps even now watching sunsets or Bradstreet and the African-American poet Phyllis walking through the woods, waiting for the right Wheatley. The same was true on the other side inspiration. We hope that the small sampling of of the Atlantic: we can claim John Milton and Congregational poets we offer here, from both the John Bunyan, but also, as British scholar George past and present, will provide just that. Southcombe tells us, scores of lesser-known 5 “thy love enflame in mee” How a Puritan Pastor’s Poetry Shaped My Life CHARles E. HAMBRicK-STOwe The meditative poems of Edward Taylor Taylor’s blend of scripture, the earthiness (1642-1729) grabbed my attention from the of human experience, and ethereal yearning for start. It was their intensity, enhanced somehow divine love resonated with me at a deep level. As by their antiquity. Their contemplative quality, he wrote that first meditation late on July 23, 1682, their intimate expression of hunger for God, were Taylor was consumed with grief, his eleven-month reminiscent of John Donne (as in “Batter my old daughter Abigail on her deathbed, the second heart, three person’d God”) and the metaphysical child he and his wife Elizabeth would have to bury. poets of England. The first of Taylor’s “Preparatory One can imagine Taylor by the hearth in prayer. Meditations” – prayerful exercises on Saturday While his poems follow a metric formula, at their night in anticipation of preaching and administering best they are not formulaic. By the last stanza, we the Lord’s Supper in the Congregational church at know his desperation was real. Westfield, Massachusetts, where he was pastor – Oh! that thy Love might overflow my Heart! set the tone. To fire the same with Love: for Love I would. What Love is this of thine, that Cannot bee But oh! my streight’ned [constricted] Breast! my In thine Infinity, O Lord, confined, Lifeless Sparke! Unless it in thy very Person see, My Fireless Flame! What Chilly Love, and Infinity and Finity conjoyn’d? Cold? What hath thy Godhead, as not satisfied In measure small! In Manner Chilly! See Marri’de our Manhood, making it its Bride? Lord blow the Coal: Thy Love Enflame in (I:1:1-6)1 mee. (I:1:13-18) 1 Quotations from “Preparatory Meditations before my Approach to the Lords Supper” are from Donald E. Stanford, ed., The Poems of Edward Taylor (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1960). The Roman numeral in each reference indicates the series, followed by the number of the poem and lines within the poem. Thus, I:1:1-6 signifies Series I, Meditation 1, lines 1-6. Spelling has not been modernized. Definitions in brackets are my own. 6 He would compose 215 more poems like this, Edward Taylor was transcribed and edited by along with many others on various themes, often Donald Sanford (Yale University Press, 1960). In prompted by specific occasions, personal crises, or those days, Taylor was a whole new subject in the ecclesiastical issues, until retirement at age 83 in 1725. field of American literature and scholars were trying to figure him out. How could a Puritan be so, well, As I worked with Taylor over many years, almost mystical? What excited me was his perfect fit what I learned from him and his discipline of spiritual with my conviction that, whatever else it was as an writing helped shape my own life, personally and intellectual, ecclesiastical, and revolutionary social professionally. I wanted that kind of spirituality movement, Puritanism at its heart was a devotional for myself and I wanted to share it with others, in movement, rooted in spiritual experience. both the academic and the church circles in which I moved. All this began in the late-1970s when I Edward Taylor’s meditative poetry, along was engaged in research for my Boston University with that of Anne Bradstreet, America’s other great doctoral dissertation on Puritan devotional practices, colonial poet, opened a window into the soul of those under the guidance of David Hall, who had written early Congregationalists as I completed The Practice of The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth- Ministry in the Seventeenth Century (University of Century New England (University of North Carolina North Carolina Press, 1972). Press, 1982). Their private writing helped shed light on other Puritan writings and on the Puritans themselves While most of my digging into early New as people of faith. I went on to explore their personal England religious life involved diaries, sermons, spiritual experience more particularly in Early New and other primary resources preserved at the England Meditative Poetry: Anne Bradstreet and Congregational Library and Archives, Taylor’s Edward Taylor, in the Sources of American Spirituality poetry was available in a recent critical edition. series published by Paulist Press (1989). He had written in secret, intending that nobody but God would know his work. The manuscripts This academic work coincided with trends were brought to light only in 1937 after Thomas H. during the late-1970s and 1980s in the life of Johnson uncovered and began publishing selected the church and the practice of Christian faith. poems, culminating in The Poetical Works of Protestants eager to embrace spiritual practices Edward Taylor (Princeton University Press, 1943). looked everywhere for models, from non-Christian The definitive complete edition of The Poems of religious traditions to Roman Catholic practices rooted in monastic spirituality. Notwithstanding Puritanism at its heart was a the popularity of books like the Quaker evangelical devotional movement, rooted in Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (HarperCollins, 1978), many spiritual experience. assumed that their own history was devoid of useful examples or even antagonistic to contemplative “ ” spirituality. Puritans like Edward Taylor 7 demonstrated that Protestant exemplars were right bee” (I:5:10).
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