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Early American Writers

In the literature of there is one common
trait among all the writings: religion. Among Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan
Edwards all speak of their opinion of religion, god, heaven, and material
things.
Anne Bradstreet was a puritan wife, originally from England but
then moved to America. Upon moving and settling into her home, her poems
became full of emotion and spoke about concerns from her heart. She was
religious and believed that men had superiority over women.
A common concern in these religious writers was the unimportance of
material things on Earth. In Bradstreet's Upon the Burning of Our House
July 10th, 1666, her house was burned to the ground. Nevertheless, she did
not shed ...

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and glorious God." Jonathan was also a puritan
from the early America, however, he was a preacher.
Like Anne Bradstreet, he did not believe in material things. In
his sermon entitle Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he states "now they
see that those things on which they depended for peace and safety were
nothing but thin air and empty shadows." This statement agrees with what
Bradstreet believed in, that nothing (possessions) is important on Earth.
If a person has depended on those things for all your life and then they
are suddenly taken away from you, you will not know what to do.
However, unlike Bradstreet, he portrays god as angry for all the
sins of man and ready to punish them for their sins. He says "The God that
holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some
loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked;
his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of
nothing else but to be cast into the ...

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