Read more
The most comprehensive attempt to anthologise the key Ranter writings - bringing together some remarkable, visionary and unforgettable texts.
List of contents
Foreword - John Carey & Greil Marcus Preface Introduction 1. Abiezer Coppe Preface to 'John the Divine's Divinity' (1648) 'Some Sweet Sips, of some Spirituall Wine' (1649) 'An Additional and Preambular Hint' to Richard Coppin's 'Divine teachings' (1649) 'A Fiery Flying Roll' and 'A Second Fiery Flying Roule' (1649) Letter from Coppe to Salmon and Wyke 'A Remonstrance of The Sincere and Zealous Protestation' (1651) 'Copp's Return to the wayes of Truth' (1651) 2. Laurence Clarkson 'A Single Eye All Light, no Darkness' (1650) From 'The Lost Sheep Found' (1660) 3. Joseph Salmon 'A Rout, A Rout' (1649) Letter from Salmon to Thomas Webbe (3 April 1650) 'Heights in Depths' (1651) 4. Jacob Bauthumley 'The Light and Dark Sides of God' (1650) Notes Index Index of Biblical References
About the author
Nigel Smith is William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton University. His books include A Collection of Ranter Writings (Pluto, 2014), Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (2010), and Is Milton better than Shakespeare? (2008), Harvard University Press.
John Carey is a British literary critic, and post-retirement emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He contributed the foreword to A Collection of Ranter Writings (Pluto, 2014).
Summary
The most comprehensive attempt to anthologise the key Ranter writings - bringing together some remarkable, visionary and unforgettable texts.
