... an impulse that David Perkins hascalled “chivalrous” (). There are worse labels, certainly, for a literaryhistorian to bear. Moreover, chivalry toward the dead is a familiarimpulse among early ... their initial readers and hearers, we can avoid simply lamenting,once again, what they fail to do for us. That case has already been madetoo frequently to bear repeating, and not just about these ... Puritan poetry by postromantic artistic, psychological, and moralstandards, and even though Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor seemxiiimarginally able to hold their own in the face of anachronistic...