The Pulter Project

Poet in the Making

A unique leather-bound manuscript, disregarded for centuries.

Poems of revolution: political, personal, religious, scientific.

We take this material and make something new.

We invite you to continue the making.

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      • exploration“And space may produce new worlds”: Hester Pulter and the Imagined Worlds of Astronomy and Poetry
      • explorationA Difficult Labor: Hester Pulter’s Date of Birth
      • explorationHester Pulter in 15 Fifteens
      • explorationHester Pulter’s Marriage: Facts and Fiction
      • explorationHester Pulter and the Blazon in Early Modern England
      • explorationHow to Tell If You’re in a Hester Pulter Poem
      • explorationThe Making of The Pulter Project
      • explorationPicturing Pulter: Words, Pigment, Stone, and Thread
      • explorationRereading Pulter’s Confinement in the Pandemic
      • explorationSoundings: Hearing Hester Pulter’s Poems
      • explorationWhat Else Is In the Manuscript? Or, Where Did Pulter’s Poems Live?
      • Black Monday (1652)
      • Controlling the Sun
      • Early Modern Astronomy
      • Eclipse Literature
      • Talking to Death
      • Transformations of the Elements
      • Come Away…
      • Country and Country House Poems
      • How to Do Things with Political Poetry
      • The Many-Headed Hydra
      • Pearled Over
      • The Body Resurrected
      • Burial Rites
      • Daily Dying and Rising
      • Doomsday
      • “Night” in Ink
      • Deep Ecologies
      • Globes of Earth and Light
      • The Phoenix
      • The Unicorn
      • Vegetable Love
      • Commemorating the Dead
      • Male Friendship
      • Royalist Accounts Linking the Execution to the Siege of Colchester
      • The Shooting of Lucas and Lisle
      • Understanding Through Comparison
      • War Memorials
      • Child Loss Elegies
      • The Hunted Deer
      • The Sad Nightingale
      • White Lilies and Red Roses
      • The Death of a Child
      • Foolish Mourning
      • Fragrant Odors Immortalize a Virgin Name
      • Poems in Conversation
      • The Botanical Blazon
      • Expanding Our Understanding of Flora
      • Flower People
      • The Flowers of Pulter’s Library: Myths
      • Other Garden Poems
      • Parliaments of Flowers
      • Picturing Pulter’s Flowers
      • Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution
      • Circles and Labyrinths
      • Circles in Alchemy
      • Devotional Circles
      • Donne’s Circles
      • Dust
      • Matter and Creation
      • Sighs and Tears
      • Desiring Death
      • This Terrene Globe
      • Bell Tolling
      • Personified Death in Early Modern Art and Literature
      • Alchemy and Devotion
      • Images of Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn
      • The Good Death
      • The Light of God
      • Memento Mori
      • A Tedious Pilgrimage
      • An Assize Sermon
      • Aurora and Phoebe
      • Flies Do What They’re Made For
      • Moiling in the Earth
      • More Ruminations on Death and Resurrection
      • A Female Slave
      • Mother Earth
      • Pismires
      • What is a dunghill?
      • Christian Mortalism from the Bible to Pulter
      • The Poetry of Night and Day
      • Alchemical Quintessence
      • Broadfield, Hertfordshire
      • Did women play football in the seventeenth century?
      • The Dissolution of Matter into the Four Elements
      • Poetic Fancies
      • Body, Soul, Dust
      • The Knowledge of God
      • Reading (and Transforming) Biblical Sources
      • “Scientific” Poetry
      • Metaphors of Violence in Devotional Poetry
      • Pulter’s Psalmic Intertexts
      • Heroic Suicide and Women’s Writing
      • Lying-In
      • Lark Mirrors
      • Male and Female Spiders
      • Mowers and the Birds they Kill
      • The Myth of Arachne
      • The Built Body
      • The Light of God
      • Aging Women
      • Erra Pater and the Sibyl
      • Illness and Poetry
      • “Stars (nay suns)”: Cosmic Pluralism and Early Modern Poetry
      • The Crown Imperial in the Early Modern English Imagination
      • Tears and Ink
      • Complaint Poetry
      • Early Modern Astronomy
      • The Planets in Poetry
      • “Creatures venomous, and offensive to man”
      • Good and Bad Animal Parents
      • Speculations about Multiple Worlds
      • Versifying Captivity
      • Amphitrite and the Dolphin
      • Dolphins as Friends to Man or “Philanthropos”
      • Flora
      • Triangulation and the Second Person
      • Who’s Fair? Race and Praise of the Beloved
      • Emblems of Phaeton and Icarus
      • Attitudes to Essex
      • Margaret Cavendish’s dancing atoms
      • Margaret Cavendish’s female figures
      • Pulter Reads Bradstreet’s Tenth Muse
      • Pulter Reads Eikon Basilike
      • Pulter Reads Geffrey Whitney’s A Choice of Emblemes
      • Pulter Reads George Sandys’s Paraphrase Upon Job
      • Dear Death
      • Dust
      • Knowledge, Faith and Doubt
      • The “Little Luz”
      • Manuscript Ambiguities
      • Punctuating Poetry
      • Wishing for the End
      • Breath and Song
      • Devotional Lyrics
      • George Herbert
      • Pilgrimage
      • Wings
      • Blessed Steps
      • The City Cockneys
      • “Fickle” Fortune
      • Birds Without Feet?
      • Aconite
      • Cooking Up Poisoned Messes—and Antidotes
      • What Is a Mountebank?
      • Youth and Age
      • A Creature Called a Cannibal?
      • Indulgent Parenting
      • Early Modern Porcupines
      • Early Modern Tortoises
      • Crystal Glass
      • The Sin of Pride
      • The Swift, Savage, Maternal Tiger
      • What about Narcissus?
      • The Devoted Turtledove
      • The Widows
      • Puppets, Masques, and Buffoons
      • Raccoon or Beaver?
      • Timon of Athens
      • Dissolved to Tears
      • Hunted Deer in Poetry
      • Seeking Dittany
      • Suspire
      • Mowbray and Bolingbroke
      • Pigeon Houses of Cards
      • Spiders
      • Tilt-yards and Toys
      • Toads
      • Toad and Spider
      • Moose: Fact and Fiction
      • Serpents vs. Deer
      • Shipwrecks and Civil War
      • Emblem Books as Parenting Guides
      • Swine and Ermine
      • Elephant and Dragon
      • Samson
      • What’s a Catablepe?
      • Doctor Fox and the Medieval Beast Fable
      • Lions Eating Apes as a Cure for Illness
      • Machiavelli’s Lion and Fox
      • Machiavelli’s Prince: Better to be Loved or Feared?
      • Cetacean Relations
      • Domestic Resurrections and Everyday Miracles
      • Palingenesis
      • Posies: The Flower/Writing Connection
      • Resurrections at Cairo
      • Resurrections of the Body
      • Did hunters really ride whales like horses?
      • The Leviathan and the Bible
      • The Miracle of the Swine
      • Taming the North American “Indian”
      • Whales Working in Mills
      • Whaling Legends
      • Picturing Rats and Mice in Early Modern English Culture
      • The Russian Rustic and the Hollow Tree
      • Seventeenth-Century English Views of Russians
      • Phalaris and Perillus in Early Modern Print
      • Procrustes, Sciron, Termerus, and Sinis in Early Modern Print
      • Pulter and Jamaica
      • Pulter’s Garden
      • The Worker Bee