Michael Wigglesworth
Author
(1631 - 1705)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) was a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England.
Bibliography
The Day of Doom (1929)
A religious poem that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662.It describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all people.