Show I Other Points of View I PURITAN LITERATURE TURE If It there was ever er a race that knew the tho value of ot the written word It t. t was tho the Puritan of ot New England For lor I tho hc arts arti of ot music drama and painting ho he cared little he lie connected them with his dearest too foe Antichrist or as Cotton Mather preferred to call him the him tho devils devil's eldest son But of oC the tho Impulse to express himself In tho the forma torm permitted b by his creed he was perennially conscious He lie was not by the tho conception already shaping It Itself Itself itself It- It self In the minds of or his Cavalier brethren in Virginia Virginia- lnla that the production of or literature was a bit unworthy of the attention of ot a gentl gentleman man The Puritan had lied that more democratic view of ot life lIte which has ever been cen the prime essential of ot great creative effort and his vr vory social constitution constitution con con- provided tho the stimulus of ot mind mind striking fire against mind whIch makes always for expression He was not content either with describing the things Immediately immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately around him His Ins imagination vitalI vitally concerned concerned concerned con con- with the other world projected Itself Into the tho realm of ot the supernatural finding there sometimes horror sometime sometimes some some- times time baut beauty And An If It the fruits first are arc often repellent to tous tous tous us It must always bo bl remembered that that impulse when It ceased to become a motive of ot life liCe became a n. motive mothe of ot art and produced tho supreme creation of ot Tho Scarlet I Letter Some Somo Ingenuity hats has been expended in the effort to draw a distinction between the social and economic conditions of oC tho the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Puritans at Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Nassa- I ba bay but from tho the standpoint of ot literary expresion expression expression sion ion they thoy are arc one people Christened b by their enemies In England Puritans Puritan we find the Pilgrims adopting the name In the tho first and greatest s of ot their book books William Bradford's account Of Ot Plantation These three words comprise the tho t e of or the he manuscript whoso whose history reads reada Ilk lik Uk a rOnan Magazine |