The Tables Turned: A Theory of Nature Poetry

Relearning worship by allowing the Creator to write us

Italianate Landscape with an Artist Sketching from Nature by Jan Both (1645)

I read Puritan poet Edward Taylor’s poem “Upon a Wasp Chilled With Cold” as an undergraduate nearly twenty years ago. I was familiar with the Romantic poets, as I had spent some years leading up to that point studying their works, but there was something about this particular po…