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Essay Archive - Similarities of Bradstreet and Wheatly
Similarities of Bradstreet and Wheatly
M.A. Richmond states in Bid the Vassal Soar, “There is a marked
similarity between the two poets in the accent on personal humility and
deep religious feeling.” The two poets that the quote is referring to, are
Anne Bradstreet, and Phillis Wheatley. Bradstreet and Wheatly may have
been different on the outside, but their writing styles are very similar.
They both wrote much more intellectually than women of their time were
expected to be able to.
In Anne Bradstreet's 60 years, she became an accomplished writer.
She was the first North American to publish a book of poems. Though it wa....
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