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American literature
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......The first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm Book (1640...Christi Americana (1702).Even Puritan poetry was offered uniformly to the service...her own piety. The best of the Puritan poets, Edward Taylor, whose work......
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Canadian literature, English
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......MacMechan, and Lorne Pierce.Genuinely Canadian poetry was late in developing. In the 18th cent. Puritan hymnists, such as Henry Alline, and refugee...began producing a large body of romantic poetry, describing nature and Canadian rural life......
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Wigglesworth, Michael
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......in 1638. A devoted minister at Malden, Mass., he also practiced medicine and wrote didactic poetry. His Day of Doom (1662), a ballad of Puritan theology, was extremely popular and was followed by God's Controversy with New England (written......
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Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley)
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......came to Massachusetts in the Winthrop Puritan group in 1630 with her father, Thomas...governors of the state. A dutiful Puritan wife who raised a large family, she nevertheless found time to write poetry. In 1650 her first volume of verse......
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Santayana, George
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......s philosophic writing displays a characteristic richness of style; he also wrote poetry, a volume of which appeared in 1923. His only novel, The Last Puritan (1935), had great popular success. His Dominations and Powers, on political philosophy......
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Marvell, Andrew
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......the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as being a Puritan and a public defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poetry, which includes "The Garden," "The Definition of Love......
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Crashaw, Richard
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......fellow at Peterhouse until the Puritan uprising, when he fled to...he was the son of an ardent Puritan clergyman, by 1646 he had...Although he wrote secular poetry in Latin and Greek as well...rests on his intense religious poetry. His strange mixture of sensuality......
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children's literature
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......of sanctimonious children—written for the edification of Puritan boys and girls. Out of this period came one classic for...s Garden of Verses (1885) set the style for much of the poetry written for children today. Lewis Carroll's twin masterpieces......
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Restoration (in English history)
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......Scotland. In England a strong reaction had set in against Puritan supremacy and military control. When Monck marched on London...life in the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, and in poetry the Restoration is distinguished by the work of John Dryden......
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Taylor, Edward
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......as Congregational minister for Westfield, Mass. An ardent Puritan, Taylor agreed completely with the Calvinistic beliefs of...Since he did not publish his poems in his lifetime, his poetry remained in manuscript until 1937. In 1939, T. H. Johnson......