Anne Bradstreet, The Heretical Poet.

Title: Anne Bradstreet, The Heretical Poet.
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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 …showed first 75 words of 2155 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2155 total…England, 4th ed. New York: New         York University Press, 1970. Spiller, Robert E., W. Thorp, T.H. Johnson, H.S. Canby and R.M. Ludwig, Literarty History of                  the United States, 3rd. ed. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1963. Stanford, Ann. Anne Bradstreet: The Wordly Puritan. New York: Burt Franklin, 1974. Unger, Leonard ed. American Writers: Supplement I. Part I. NY: Charles Scribrer's Sons,                  1979. 8 vols. White, Elizabeth Wade. Anne Bradstreet: 'The Tenth Muse.' New York: Oxford University                  Press, 1971.

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