Early American Writers
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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 ....
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.... "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky . . . " and remember these
things do not matter, what matters is her "house on high."
Jonathan Edwards also found comfort in god, "leading me to sweet
contemplations of my great 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 t ....
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