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The New England Transcendentalists derived no small inspiration from Woolman, who kept a Journal for the most part of his life, recording his spiritual experiences of inward communication with God. P 21
outline
American Puritanism: origin and development;
Calvinism; heritage and curse; the biblical myth of the Garden of Eden
as the base of American L.
outline
The Wild Honeysuckle p23 The Indian Burying Ground The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi
In his poem, “Huswifery”, he saw religious significance in a simple daily incident like a housewife spinning. p19
Roger Williams, a great Puritan
dissenter
freedom of the individual, was orderes comment: “the first rebel
against the divine church order in the
wilderness”.
P20
John Woolman, a pious Quaker
A. Puritanism’s development
The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to complete ‘purity’.
4 Charles Brockden Brown
Origin of American Puritanism
Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans, who were originally members of a division of the Protestant church, who came into existence in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King JamesⅠ.
The literary scene in Colonial America:
1 origins: personal literature in various forms;
2 early poets: Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor;
3 Authors for civil and religious freedom and against British colonial rule: Roger Williams, John Woolman, Thomas Paine, and Philip Freneau;
Edward Taylor: a meditative Puritan poet who concerned about how his images speak for God.
In his splendid, exotic images, Taylor came nearest to the English baroque poets. See “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” p20
Early poets: Anne Bradstreet
and Edward Taylor
Anne Bradstreet: known as the “Tenth Muse” by English people.
The argument of most of her poems is essentially about the justice of God’s way with His Puritan flock.
His book “The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience” (1644), attacking
the soul-killing requirement of religious
conformity and upholding the spiritual
Thomas Paine 1737-1809
Revolutionary and inflammatory pamphlets helping to spur and inspire two greatest revolutions (A.R, F.R)
Common Sense: attacked B. monarchy and added fuel to the fire which was to bring the colossus of its colonial rule down in flames.
They accepted the doctrine of John Calvin, the great French theologian who lived in Geneva: predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement (or the salvation of a selected few) through a special infusion of grace from God. (Calvinism)
A. Puritans’ lives were extremely disciplined and hard, they came under violent and often virulent attacks for their religious intolerance (persecution) and bigotry, for their austerity of taste and killjoy way of life.
The origin of American L
Personal literature in various forms: Diaries, histories, journals, letters,
commonplace books, travel books, sermons, ponderously religious poems …
The first settlers, the founding fathers of the A. nation were quite a few of them English Puritans, who came to A. out of various reasons; but they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles.
Against Calvinism (total depravity, original sin and limited atonement), attacking all forms of iniquity, be it a social evil or the atrocious slavery system.
Puritanism as heritage and curse
A. Puritans became more and more practical in the grim struggle for survival immediately after their arrival in A. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them.
They search for a sense of man’s nature and destiny and his mission in the new world.
See her Contemplations (9). p17
Early poets: Anne Bradstreet
and Edward Taylor
the biblical myth of the Garden of Eden as the base of A L.
Puritanical optimism (restore the lost paradise) exerted a great influence on A Literature: romanticism, transcendentalism, symbolism, James’ ‘international theme’ and his ‘innocent Americans abroad’ , frustration and disillusionment of ‘American dream’, a ‘gilded Age’, …
the biblical myth of the Garden of Eden as the base of A L.
the sense of mission:
Thinking that they were God’s chosen people, A. Puritans, with a tremendous amount of optimism in the face of the worst of life, dreamed to rebuild a new Garden of Eden to restore the lost paradise in the new land of vast expanse of wilderness never corrupted.
Puritanism as culture heritage
American Puritanism had an enduring shaping influence on American thought and American Literature.
It had become , to some extent, so much a state of mind, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere, rather than a set of tenets.
American Crisis: for A.R. The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason:
spreading the ideals of the French R. P22
Philip Freneau 1752-1832
The most significant poet of eighteenth century America. Some of his themes and images anticipated the works of such 19thC American Romantic writers as Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville.
outline
American Puritanism: origin and development;
Calvinism; heritage and curse; the biblical myth of the Garden of Eden
as the base of American L.
outline
The Wild Honeysuckle p23 The Indian Burying Ground The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi
In his poem, “Huswifery”, he saw religious significance in a simple daily incident like a housewife spinning. p19
Roger Williams, a great Puritan
dissenter
freedom of the individual, was orderes comment: “the first rebel
against the divine church order in the
wilderness”.
P20
John Woolman, a pious Quaker
A. Puritanism’s development
The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to complete ‘purity’.
4 Charles Brockden Brown
Origin of American Puritanism
Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans, who were originally members of a division of the Protestant church, who came into existence in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King JamesⅠ.
The literary scene in Colonial America:
1 origins: personal literature in various forms;
2 early poets: Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor;
3 Authors for civil and religious freedom and against British colonial rule: Roger Williams, John Woolman, Thomas Paine, and Philip Freneau;
Edward Taylor: a meditative Puritan poet who concerned about how his images speak for God.
In his splendid, exotic images, Taylor came nearest to the English baroque poets. See “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” p20
Early poets: Anne Bradstreet
and Edward Taylor
Anne Bradstreet: known as the “Tenth Muse” by English people.
The argument of most of her poems is essentially about the justice of God’s way with His Puritan flock.
His book “The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience” (1644), attacking
the soul-killing requirement of religious
conformity and upholding the spiritual
Thomas Paine 1737-1809
Revolutionary and inflammatory pamphlets helping to spur and inspire two greatest revolutions (A.R, F.R)
Common Sense: attacked B. monarchy and added fuel to the fire which was to bring the colossus of its colonial rule down in flames.
They accepted the doctrine of John Calvin, the great French theologian who lived in Geneva: predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement (or the salvation of a selected few) through a special infusion of grace from God. (Calvinism)
A. Puritans’ lives were extremely disciplined and hard, they came under violent and often virulent attacks for their religious intolerance (persecution) and bigotry, for their austerity of taste and killjoy way of life.
The origin of American L
Personal literature in various forms: Diaries, histories, journals, letters,
commonplace books, travel books, sermons, ponderously religious poems …
The first settlers, the founding fathers of the A. nation were quite a few of them English Puritans, who came to A. out of various reasons; but they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles.
Against Calvinism (total depravity, original sin and limited atonement), attacking all forms of iniquity, be it a social evil or the atrocious slavery system.
Puritanism as heritage and curse
A. Puritans became more and more practical in the grim struggle for survival immediately after their arrival in A. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them.
They search for a sense of man’s nature and destiny and his mission in the new world.
See her Contemplations (9). p17
Early poets: Anne Bradstreet
and Edward Taylor
the biblical myth of the Garden of Eden as the base of A L.
Puritanical optimism (restore the lost paradise) exerted a great influence on A Literature: romanticism, transcendentalism, symbolism, James’ ‘international theme’ and his ‘innocent Americans abroad’ , frustration and disillusionment of ‘American dream’, a ‘gilded Age’, …
the biblical myth of the Garden of Eden as the base of A L.
the sense of mission:
Thinking that they were God’s chosen people, A. Puritans, with a tremendous amount of optimism in the face of the worst of life, dreamed to rebuild a new Garden of Eden to restore the lost paradise in the new land of vast expanse of wilderness never corrupted.
Puritanism as culture heritage
American Puritanism had an enduring shaping influence on American thought and American Literature.
It had become , to some extent, so much a state of mind, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere, rather than a set of tenets.
American Crisis: for A.R. The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason:
spreading the ideals of the French R. P22
Philip Freneau 1752-1832
The most significant poet of eighteenth century America. Some of his themes and images anticipated the works of such 19thC American Romantic writers as Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville.