A funeral elegy by way of dialogue; between Death, Soul, Body and Jesus Christ. / Composed by Edmund Weld, formerly of Harvard College, who moving hence into Ireland, became a preacher of the Gospel at Inniskean, there; who upon the meditation and apprehension of his own death (which was soon after the second day of March, 1668) made this following poem, which was sent hither in a letter from his wife, there living, to his relations here. Aetatis suae an. 39.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weld, Edmund, 1631-1668, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41178.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Poetry.

Jesus Christ.

Death--Poetry.

Death.

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Dialogues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Re-printed by D. and J. Kneeland, for J. Winter in Union-Street., [between 1759 and 1761]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Dialogue in verse; first line, spoken by Death: Ho, ho prepare to go with me.

Daniel and John Kneeland began printing together in 1759. Joshua Winter died in December of 1761.

Text in three columns.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 41178).

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Bristol B2183

Shipton and Mooney 41178

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