Hutchinson, Lucy. 1679. Order and Disorder

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It is a miracle of grace and mercy, if such be not depriv’d of the light of Truth, who having shut their eyes against that Sun, have, instead of looking up to it, hunted gloworms in the ditch bottoms.

—The Preface

Lucy
Hutchinson

Order and Disorder

Or, The World Made and Undone.
Being Meditations upon the Creation and the Fall;
As it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis

Lucy Hutchinson

Misattributed for 400 years, this beginning of the greatest epic rarely read stands as a personal reconstruction of faith by a stalwart woman, Puritan and poet during England’s Century of Revolution.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record The Preface

LONDON: MARGARET WHITE FOR HENRY MORTLOCK, 1679
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2009

Canto I. Meditations on the Creation, As recorded in the First Chapter of Genesis Canto II. Canto III. Canto IV. Canto V.

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