I'll take 17th century theological poets for a thousand.

What is? The next episode of five minutes in church history.

I just had to do that.

17th century theological poets to me sounds like a category we will bump into on jeopardy,

but it is the category of this

episode of five minutes in church history.

Fascinating that we had a number of very significant poets

and they all seem clustered in the century.

Of course, this century is kicked off for us

by none other than Shakespeare,

so we should not be surprised at this great

literature that is produced by these British folks and some New England folks in this century.

First we can talk about Anne Bradstreet. She was born in Northampton in

old England in 1612. In 1630 she was on the Arbella with Winthrop and company as they landed in New England. She was part of New England royalty almost.

Her father was a governor, and her husband Simon Brad Street was also a governor,

and she was a poet.

She was in fact the first American colonial poet. She was the first American colonial poet.

She was the first American woman colonial poet.

She was the first American woman colonial poet to be published in Great Britain.

She has all kinds of firsts.

She died in Andover, Massachusetts in 1672 and left behind a wonderful legacy of poetry, and

you should look up the poems of Anne Bradstreet and I suspect on a future

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