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Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705)
Wigglesworth, Michael. An American Congregational clergyman and poet; born in England, 1631; died at Maiden, MA, June 10, 1705. His best-known work, ‘The Day of Doom’ (1662), was long a popular poem in New England. He published: ‘God’s Controversy with New England’ and ‘Meat Out of the Eater,’ in verse; and also ‘A Discourse on Eternity.’