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Part I. The Literature of Colonial America and the Enlightenment Age Colonial America (1620---1776) Puritanism Puritanism is the attitude which desired a more thorough-going reform of the church in the direction of Protestantism. It stressed that The church should be restored to the purity of the 1st church as established by Jesus Christ Himself. Sample of colonial reading Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element… But here I cannot stand half amazed at this poor people’s present condition; and so I think will the reader, too, when he well considers the same. Being thus passed the vast ocean,… they had no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain ir refresh their weather-beaten bodies, nor houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succor. from William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation Sample of colonial reading Besides I have one of my children that was formerly most lamentably handled with sore breaking out of both his hands and feet of the kin’s evil, but since he came hither he is very well over what he was, and there is hope of perfect recovery shortly, ever by the very wholesomeness of the air. from Francis Higginson’s New-England’s Plantation Sample of colonial reading A sty of filth, a trough of washing swill, A dunghill pit, a puddle of mere slime, A nest of vipers, hive of hornet’s stings, A bag of poison, civet box of sins. by Edward Taylor Sample of colonial reading They rush from beds with giddy heads, and to their windows run