Puritan Writers
As Puritan writers, Jonathon Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, and Edward Taylor were similar in many ways, but yet, had different beliefs and styles of writing. These three amazing writers of the colonial period showed religious themes and their Calvinist faith in their poetry. ... Jonathon Edwards was born in Connecticut in a long line of Puritan ministers. ... Edwards was molded by his extreme sense of duty and by the rigid Puritan environment, which conspired to make him defend Calvinism. ... In her writing she focuses on the joy and comfort of her Puritan faith. ... His poems revealed an orthodox Puritan who believed in Calvinism and the doctrine of the elect.