Miller, Perry 1905-1963

The New England mind : from colony to province by Perry Miller( Book )

106 editions published between 1953 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,629 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Sequel to The New England mind: the seventeenth century." "Bibliographical notes": p. [487]-498

The New England mind : the seventeenth century by Perry Miller( Book )

103 editions published between 1939 and 2014 in English and held by 2,650 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An analysis of the basic beliefs held by the New England Puritans on religion, education, cosmology, and man. Notes

The life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller( Book )

56 editions published between 1965 and 2005 in English and Spanish and held by 2,127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains books 1-2, and part of book 3, of a work intended to be complete in 9 books. The parts after book 3, chapter 1, were never completed

Errand into the wilderness by Perry Miller( Book )

73 editions published between 1956 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,063 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it? These questions are by no means frivolous. They go to the roots of seventeenth-century thought and of the ever-widening and quickening flow of events since then. Disguised from twentieth-century readers first by the New Testament language and thought of the Puritans and later by the complacent transcendentalist belief in the oversoul, the related problems of purpose and reason-for-being have been central to the American experience from the very beginning. Mr. Miller makes this abundantly clear and real, and in doing so allows the reader to conclude that, whatever else America might have become, it could never have developed into a society that took itself for granted. The title, Errand into the Wilderness, is taken from the title of a Massachusetts election sermon of 1670. Like so many jeremiads of its time, this sermon appeared to be addressed to the sinful and unregenerate whom God was about to destroy. But the original speaker's underlying concern was with the fateful ambiguity in the word errand. Whose errand? This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr. Miller's engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European. For the second generation in America discovered that their heroic parents had, in fact, been sent on a fool's errand, the bitterest kind of all; that the dream of a model society to be built in purity by the elect in the new continent was now a dream that meant nothing more to Europe. The emigrants were on their own. Thus left alone with America, who were they? And what were they to do? In this book, as in all his work, the author of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century; The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, and The Transcendentalists, emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen. In this integrated series of brilliant and witty essays which he describes as "pieces," Perry Miller invites and stimulates in the reader a new conception of his own inheritance."--Amazon.com book description

The American Puritans, their prose and poetry by Perry Miller( Book )

36 editions published between 1956 and 1982 in English and held by 2,061 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections from the writings of Puritans in New England in the first century of colonial life

Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller( Book )

71 editions published between 1949 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,035 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Perry Miller's study of Jonathan Edwards as a writer and an artist is regarded as one of the great studies of 'the life of the mind.' He challenges his readers to understand Edwards as an intellectual who, living in his own time and place, wrestled with issues relevant to the modern world"--Page 4 of cover

The transcendentalists : an anthology by Perry Miller( Book )

51 editions published between 1950 and 2001 in English and and held by 1,890 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American transcendentalists : their prose and poetry by Perry Miller( Book )

35 editions published between 1937 and 1996 in English and held by 1,730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anthology of works by New England writers of the early 1800's

Roger Williams: his contribution to the American tradition by Perry Miller( Book )

46 editions published between 1953 and 1997 in English and held by 1,633 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Puritans by Perry Miller( Book )

32 editions published between 1963 and 1967 in English and held by 1,621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as 'the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture'"--Amazon.com