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Entries: Colonial Period (American) - "Only Anne Bradstreet---'The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America'---wrote poems worthy of comparison with Taylor's." Puritanism - "In America, a dozen or more writers attained positions in literature largely because they happened to stand at the source of the stream. [...] and such poets as Anne Bradstreet [..] derive importance from their work and their historical position."