Anne Dudley Bradstreet was America’s first poet at a woman. She was born in England and lived a luxury lifestyle as a child. “Her upbringing was influenced by her father’s position ;”( Notable Women Ancestors) he was the chief steward of the vast estates of Theophilus Clinton, the Puritan Earl of Lincoln. Her father made it so that she had private tutors and also access to earl’s library,

Edward Taylor's Calvinist and Puritan beliefs are heavily influenced in his sermons and writings. “As is confirmed in many of his published sermons, Taylor's Puritan beliefs are central in his physical and spiritual life” (Milieu). Contrasting from Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, “the Calvinist beliefs of this Puritan minister, scholar, and author guided his decisions that were also influenced by the political atmosphere of the times” (Milieu).

Anne Bradstreet’s poetry was very private and personal. She mainly wrote her poetry for her family, friends and herself. Anne’s poetry differed from Edward Taylor’s in many diverse ways. Anne’s poetry was published by her brother in law, Rev. John Woodbridge, who had secured a manuscript copy of fifteen poems, and caused them to be printed in England under the title, “The Tenth Muse”. “As a Puritan woman of the seventeenth-century, Anne Bradst

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