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Poetry's Impact on Society in 'A Defense of Poesy'

In the long essay, “A Defense of Poesy,” Sir Philip Sidney responds to the attempts of repression by the Puritan Movement on poets and their work by characterizing poetry as the roots of culture and intelligence. Sidney uses mythical allusions and historical references to various…

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The puritans: a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries

The puritans were a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship. Back in those days the…

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American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning

In reading the incredibly moving text of The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, a detailed narrative of Mary Rowlandson’s eleven week captivity among Narragansett Indians, one cannot help but become aware of the presence of two distinct and alternating narrative voices throughout the body of…

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Mather enlightenment thinking on Calvinists values and his christian belief.

Within “The Triumph of the Reformed Religion in America,” Cotton Mather represents his roots of Puritanism as well as transitioning towards more enlightenment thought. His essay centers on a minister named Eliot who seeks to save the natives by means of learning their language (Mather…

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Human Nature: Good vs Evil

“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne are both short stories that illustrate Puritan ideas about the place of evil in human nature. Both short stories revolve around a central character and his personal struggle with the…

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