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Essay Galaxy - Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in
the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that
Bradstreet was a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne
Hutchinson was. Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and
preached a doctrine of salvation through intuitive apprehension of grace
rather than by works, and attacked the rigid moral and legal codes of New
England Puritanism. Anne Bradstreet accepted the tenets of Puritanism and
was a very religious person. Anti-Puritan themes are, however, to be found
in her poetry in terms of her religious doubts, her expression of personal
emotions and thoughts, and her artistry. She did not write to preach or
teach,, as Puritan writers were instructed to, but to expre....
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