Imagine, if you would, fervently believing in an idea so intensely that it fills up your life effortlessly. In the 16th century, Christianity was for your average believer. While there were multiple branches of Christianity during this time, one has stuck out above the others as seen in our literature and history. Puritanism is the source and “writer” of many literary works from the 16th, 17th, and even 18th century found today. This idea and concept influenced writers and poets alike. Puritanism (being a sort of parent belief to seperatism), is the belief that many Christians held in the United Kingdom during this time. Puritanism is, the beliefs or principles of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded …show more content…
It’s this controversy that angered the newfound puritans, causing the increased tension for reform and renewal in the church. This rise in reform and development of puritan ideals was shown through the literary works of authors, poets, and preachers for many centuries. One of these influential and influential authors was Anne Bradstreet. Born c. 1612, Anne Bradstreet (also known as Anne Dudley) was one of the first poets to escribe English verse in the colonies. Anne Bradstreet was the daughter of Thomas Dudley, the chief steward to Theophilus Clinton, who was the Puritan Earl of Lincoln at the time. This was the beginning of her Puritan beliefs. She eventually married a man named Simon Bradstreet, who was a prototype of the earls. When she was 18, her husband and her family (including her) sailed with other Puritans to settle on the Massachusetts bay. From birth, Anne Bradstreet was surrounded by Puritan ideals and to a minor degree, separatist ideals. These concepts are fully apparent in her
Façade of Domesticity Anne Bradstreet was a British born poet of the 17th century, who was the first female writer to be published in the New World. Unlike Sarah Grimke, a feminist writer from the 19th century, Bradstreet’s poetry mainly focuses on womanhood and her experiences as a female. Because of the religious restrictions of her time period, her writing was relegated to gender specific topics like marriage, childbirth, mortally and death. Yet, like Grimke, Bradstreet struggled with her ostracism
Traveling to the New World in 1630 at age eighteen, poet Anne Bradstreet lived an arduous and troublesome life in the infant American colonies. After writing for many years in America and having her poems secretly published by her brother-in-law in England, Anne Bradstreet became not only the first published female American poet, but the first published American poet ever. As a Puritan, Bradstreet projected her religion, as well as her worldly observations, onto her poetry. She also explored the
Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612, in Northhamptionshire, England. Anne had a very promising pair of parents whom raised her to the fullest of their abilities. In the era that Bradstreet was born females did not go to school. Women were to stay at the home and be care takers to their household; they had to cook, clean, and make clothes for their husband and children to wear. Although Anne had to learn all of the household demands from her mother, her father gave her an astounding education. Her father
in the days of Anne Bradstreet. Bradstreet, however, was determined to show that she was not going to be held back by the standards of women set by society. Canadian author Margaret Atwood perfectly put in to perspective how men and women are viewed in society when she said, “We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.” Why is it that women are taught that they have to prove themselves worthy to live in a man’s world? I believe Anne Bradstreet, like many women
Anne Bradstreet is considered by many experts to be the first English-speaking/writing American poet. Although arguments can be made that Phyllis Wheatley is indebted that title, the complexity, breadth, depth and ingenuity found in Bradstreet’s poetry is of such magnitude that she ranks among the top five poets, male or female, in American history. However, as with most issues, there is contention on both sides. “The question of Anne Bradstreet’s value as a poet has often receded behind the more
Plagiarism Early in the fall semester, a professor of American studies at Cornell found a three-page paper on the Internet analyzing a poem by Anne Bradstreet. A student in his course had just handed in that very paper. Accused of plagiarism, the student confessed that she had taken the paper from an Anne Bradstreet Web site. She had locked herself out of her apartment the night before the paper was due, she said, and without access to her notes had panicked. Two weeks later, the professor's wife