LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Edward Taylor
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Jonathan Edwards
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Olaudah Equiano
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Anne Bradstreet
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bradstreet was not responsible for her writing becoming public. Bradstreet’s brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, sent her work off to be published. Bradstreet was a righteous woman and her poetry was not meant to bring attention to herself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bradstreet’s brother-in-law, without her knowledge, took her poems to England, where they were published as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). The first American edition of The Tenth Muse was published in revised and expanded form as Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (1678).
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Bradstreet, she was so averse to fame that she did not want her poetry published. In her poem, “The Author to her Book, ” she declares that the manuscript was “stol’n” from her.