Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
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Greg Saxon
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
prea ....
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.... in which Bradstreet lived and wrote must be examined in order
to comprehend what kinds of human activities and behaviors were acceptable
and how Bradstreet deviated from these behaviors.
Bradstreet was not truly unorthodox in that she did not dissent
from accepted beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century
and lived in a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived
within the limitations not only of the beliefs and standards of her society,
but of her sex. A woman' ....
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