Primary Works

God's plot; the paradoxes of Puritan piety; being The autobiography & journal of Thomas Shepard. Edited with an introd. by Michael McGiffert. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1972. BX7260 .S53 A32

Thomas Shepard's Confessions. edited by George Selement & Bruce C. Woolley. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1981.

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Boswell, Parley A. "'Unspeakable Rich Mercy': Text and Audience in Three Puritan Sermons: John Cotton's The Covenant of God's Free Grace, Thomas Hooker's The Christian's Two Chiefe Lessons, and Thomas Shepard's The Saint's Jewel." DAI 48.5 (Nov 1987): 1241A.

Cappello, Mary. "The Authority of Self-Definition in Thomas Shepard's Autobiography and Journal." Early American Literature 24.1 (1989): 35-51.

Delbanco, Andrew. "Thomas Shepard's America: The Biography of an Idea." Studies in Biography. Ed. Daniel Aaron. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978. 159-82.

Frederick, John T. "Literary Art in Thomas Shepard's The Parable of the Ten Virgins." Seventeenth Century News 26.1 (1968): Item 7.

Gallagher, Edward J. , and Thomas Werge. Early Puritan Writers: A Reference Guide. Boston: Hall, 1976.

Grabo, Norman S. "Colonial American Theology: Holiness and the Lyric Impulse." Essays in Honor of Russel B. Nye. Eds. Joseph J. Waldmeir and David C. Mead. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1978. 74-91.

Hahn, T.G. " Urian Oakes's 'Elegie' on Thomas Shepard and Puritan Poetics." American Literature 45 (1973): 163-81.

Hall, David D. "Toward a History of Popular Religion in Early New England." William and Mary Quarterly 41.1 (Jan 1984): 49-55.

Kaiser, Leo M. "On the Epitaph of Thomas Shepard II and a Corrigendum in Jantz." Early American Literature 14 (1979-80): 316-17.

King, John O. "On the Effectual Work of the Word: William James and the Practice of Puritan Confession." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 25.1 (Sprg 1983): 34-54.

Langford, Jeff. "Job's Non-Covenant Afflictions." Pleiades 10.1 (Wint 1990): 42-44.

| Top | Marquit, Doris G. "Thomas Shepard: The Formation of a Puritan Identity." DAI 39 (1978): 887A

McCarl, Mary R. "Thomas Shepard's Record of Relations of Religious Experience, 1648-1649." William and Mary Quarterly 48.3 (Jul 1991): 432-66.

McGill, Carla A. "Thomas Shepard's 'Confessions': Conversion and Modes of Expression." DAI 54.12 (Jun 1994): DA9414502.

Moran, Susan D. "Thomas Shepard and the Professor: Two Documents from the Early History of Harvard." Early American Literature 17.1 (Sprg 1982): 24-42.

O'Donnell, James P. "Thomas Shepard's The Sincere Convert: A Critical Edition." DAI 41.7 (Jan 1981): 3109A.

Pettit, Norman. "Grace and Conversion at Cambridge." New England Quarterly 55.4 (Dec 1982): 596-603.

Rutman, Darrett B. "New England as Idea and Society Revisited." William and Mary Quarterly 41.1 (Jan 1984): 56-61.

Scheick, William J. "Standing in the Gap: Urian Oakes's Elegy on Thomas Shepard.." Early American Literature 9 (1975): 301-06.

Shaw, Nancy J. "Speaking for the Spirit: Cotton, Shepard, Edwards, Emerson." DAI 49.10 (Apr 1989): 3065A-3066A.

Strother, Bonnie L. "The Imagery in the Sermons of Thomas Shepard." DAI 29 (1968): 1548A.

Tipson, Baird. "The Routinized Piety of Thomas Shepard's Diary." Early American Literature 13 (1978): 64-80.

Werge, Thomas. "Thomas Shepard and Crevecoeur: Two Uses of the Image of the Bosom Serpent before Hawthorne." Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal (1974): 236-39.

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