Jeffrey Hammond is the George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts and a professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the author of Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age, This Place Where We Are, Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern, The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study, Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry, and Edward Taylor: Fifty Years of Scholarship and Criticism.

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