William Haller

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William Haller (1885 – 1974) was an American historian of Puritanism.[1][2]

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

  • The Early Life of Robert Southey, 1774–1803 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1917).
  • Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan Revolution, three volumes (New York: Columbia University Press, 1934).
  • The Rise of Puritanism, or, the Way to the New Jerusalem as Set Forth in Pulpit and Press from Thomas Cartwright to John Lilburne and John Milton, 1570–1643 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938).
  • The Leveller Tracts, 1647–1653, co-edited with Godfrey Davies (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944).
  • Liberty and Reformation in the Puritan Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955).
  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation (London: Jonathan Cape, 1963).
  • Elizabeth I and the Puritans (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1964).

Articles[edit]

  • 'Byron and the British Conscience', The Sewanee Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (January 1916), pp. 1-18.
  • 'Order and Progress in Paradise', PMLA, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1920), pp. 218-225.
  • 'Southey's Later Radicalism', PMLA, Vol. 37, No. 2 (June 1922), pp. 281-292.
  • 'Before Areopagitica', PMLA, Vol. 42, No. 4 (December 1927), pp. 875-900.
  • 'The Puritan Art of Love', co-authored with Malleville Haller, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (January 1942), pp. 235-272.
  • '"For the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing"', The American Scholar, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer 1945), pp. 326-333.
  • '"Hail Wedded Love"', ELH, Vol. 13, No. 2 (June 1946), pp. 79-97.
  • 'Two Early Allusions to Milton's "Areopagitica"', Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 2 (February 1949), pp. 207-212.
  • 'The Word of God in the Westminster Assembly', Church History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 1949), pp. 199-219.
  • 'The Word of God in the New Model Army', Church History, Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 1950), pp. 15-33
  • '"What Needs My Shakespeare?"', Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1952), pp. 3-16.
  • 'Milton and the Protestant Ethic', Journal of British Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 1961), pp. 52-57.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six 1937–1940, ed. William G. Holberger (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001), p. 240.
  2. ^ L. J. Trinterud, 'William Haller, Historian of Puritanism', Journal of British Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 1966), pp. 33-55.