1. Puritan Poets
By: Solomon Pownall, Marshall Pender, Siyu Liu, Tia Woods, and Austin Sherlock.

2. Elements of Puritan poetry
Puritans valued realistic writing with an emphasis
on religious themes.
most Puritan writing is based on the styles of the Bible.
The three most important Genres of Puritan:
Sermons, Historical narratives and Poetry.

3. Elements of Puritan poetry (Continued)
Puritans wrote directly to the point, they avoided elaborate writing styles.
Puritans wrote with specific purposes, there was no chatter.
They compared themselves to narratives, and characters in the bible in their works.
They believed that literature was not meant for entertainment; they disliked plays, and fiction novels.

4. John Milton
John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608 into a middle-class family.
He went to St. Paul’s School, then at Christ’s College, then Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English, and wanted to enter the clergy.
However he did not join priesthood, instead he stayed at his father’s country home in Buckinghamshire where he studied poetry.
Completely lost his eyesight by 1651.

5. John Milton (continued)
During his period of private study, Milton composed a number of poems, including "On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity," "On Shakespeare," “L’Allegro," “Il Penseroso," and the pastoral elegy "Lycidas.”
During the English Civil War Milton wrote many pieces advocating political topics.
He also wrote many official statements defending the commonwealth.
He wrote the blank-verse epic poem Paradise Lost in 1667, and the sequel: Paradise Regained as well as the tragedy Samson Agonistes both in 1671.

6. Anne Bradstreet Born March 20, 1612 in Northampton, England
Died September 16, 1672 in Andover, Mass.
She married Simon Bradstreet
Two years later her and her husband, along with her parents immigrated to America with the Winthrop Puritan group

7. Poetry Work She is the first notable poet in American History
Anne Bradstreet wrote her first poem when she was nineteen, called “Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno ”
She was an avowed Puritan, and her poems almost always evoke God, her faith, and/or her desire for eternal life.
Some of Bradstreet’s most beloved poems center on her love for her husband.
Bradstreet, like most Puritans, revered nature
She had many successful works including: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, To My Husband and Other Poems, and works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse.

8. John Dryden ( )
John Dryden was born August 9th, 1631 in Northamptonshire.
Born into a family with Puritan beliefs
Dryden was considered the greatest english poet of the 17th century
As a teen Dryden was sent to King’s school at Westminster to be trained as a scholar.
Attended Trinity College
Satirist Poet

9. Poetry and influences of Puritan Culture.
Greatest english poet of the 17th century
Greatest playwright after William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
Dryden wrote plays that were satiristic. A few satiristic plays were Mack Flecknoe (1682) The Medall (1682)
Dryden is best known for: Annus Mirabilis (1667) Religio Laici (1682) The Hind and the Panther (1687) and Anne Killigrew
Most of Dryden’s work was satire, drama, tragedy, and fables but he began writing plays revolved around rebellion and regicide.
He translated, and made his own version of other Poets’ work
Much of his work was considered politically dangerous because of his shifts of beliefs and consolations against Anglicanism and nonbelievers.

10. Edward Taylor
American Puritan poet and minister of the Congregational church at Westfield, Massachusetts
1642–1729
born in Leicestershire, England
left England after the Great Ejection
studied divinity at Harvard On 1668
“...not only America's finest colonial poet, but as one of the most striking writers in the whole range of American literature.”
Taylor had left instructions that his heirs should "never publish any of his writings," and the poems remained all but forgotten for more than 200 years. In these manuscript of Taylor's poetry were discovered and published. People commented "established [Taylor] almost at once and without quibble as not only America's finest colonial poet, but as one of the most striking writers in the whole range of American literature

11. Edward Taylor
His earliest verses exhibit his lifelong love of the Protestant cause and his anti-Anglican and anti-Roman position.
Preparatory Meditations and Gods Determinations touching his Elect are the two most famous poems.
Reveal his religious beliefs concerning predestination, creation, the nature of God, original sin, saving grace, redemption through faith in Christ, the division of mankind into the damned and the elect, and the joys of eternal salvation
written in England

12. Questions?

13. Url Links https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/anne-bradstreet

14. Bibliography
Britten. "Characteristics of Puritan Writing." Weebly.com. Mrs. Britten, n.d. Web.
"John Milton." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 04 Nov
"Edward Taylor." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 04 Nov
Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 04 Nov
Bradstreet, Anne. "Anne Bradstreet Biography | List of Works, Study Guides & Essays." GradeSaver. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov
"Characteristics and Themes of Puritan Literature." Mrs. Britten's English Zone. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov
"John Dryden." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 09 Nov

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