Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937. The intellectual brilliance and the emotional intensity of his poetical meditations have led critics to compare him to John Donne and George Herbert. These poems are now recognized as one of the great achievements in American devotional literature.

The Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor is a general use concordance of the work of British colonial and American puritan poet, Edward Taylor (d. 1729). Taylor's major poems, "Gods Determinations" and "Preparatory Meditations," represent nearly 50 years of poetic production of this devotional poet, whose emphasis on language and linguistic complexity make this concordance an essential tool of scholarship. This keyword-in-context (KWIC) concordance is based on Daniel Patterson's recent edition, Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations (Kent State UP, 2003) and offers users an extensive compilation and sorting of orthographic variants, treatment of homographs as discrete words, and an index of other words typically excluded from such works.