... like Judith Murray took greater liberty in letters and intellectual pursuits than women such as Anne Bradstreet took during the middle colonial period. With Murray's strong feminist views and Bradstreet's tenacity to see change for the female role in society, they were able to begin the process of change for all ... in her collections of work titled The Gleaner. It was with these two works she was able to create plays that exercised her intellectual freedom. The strong Puritan views that were hostile to theatre controlled most of society and caused a great deal of resistance to Murray's ...

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... were practical, intensely committed, and convinced of the rightness of their purpose. The Bible was the foundation upon which puritan literature was built. The ideal Puritan style was a plain style- strong, simple, and logical. This new writing influence can be found in the works of William Bradford, who wrote OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, and Anne Bradstreet, author of HERE FOLLOW SOME VERSES ... INDEPENDENCE. The AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PERIOD existed from 1783-1886. The romantic sensibility was hard to define because it was a movement that went beyond national, chronological, and artistic bou...

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... search for native literature became a national obsession. Many people saw the triumph of American independence as a divine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness. Greatness came with a strong nation and thousands of poems and stories that shaped our nation. The revolution greatly expressed the heart of the American people; however, it would take another fifty years of development ... ...

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