| Term | Definition |
|---|
| John Milton | Famous English Puritan poet. |
| Paradise Lost | Story by Milton. Satan and his followers rebel and go to Hell, God creates the world, and Adam and Eve sin. |
| On Time | Poem on how people spend time in irrelevant ways and eventually die and go to heaven |
| Plymouth | Where Puritans settled and founded in America |
| Edward Taylor | (1642-1729) Puritan minister considered to be the most gifted and complex writer before Emerson and Whitman, wrote Huswifery |
| Anne Bradstreet | English poet, first woman with published work. Moves to America and publishes famous works. |
| Gout | Disease from which John Milton dies. |
| Blindness | Affliction from which Milton suffered. |
| Mary Powell | Woman that John Milton marries in 1642. |
| Charles 1 | English King executed in 1649. |
| Sunday | For Puritans, should be filled with religion and no leisure |
| Episcopal System | System of church with Bishops. |
| Millenary Petition | Puritan grievances presented to James I |
| Diary of Edward Taylor | Chronicle of his 3 years of crossing the Atlantic |
| Propoganda | Writers told to write this by the English |
| 1660 | Year Puritan Era ended |
| 1564 | Year Puritan Era begins |
| The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts | First poem collection by Anne Bradstreet |
| King Charles II | Restored to the throne on May 30, 1660 |
| aides | What John Milton dictated to when writing poetry |
| Church of England | Viewed not to have changed in the Reformation from the Catholic church, leading the Puritans to seperate |
| King James | Thought that he would support the Puritans, he instead enhanced Anglican church and opposed the Puritan's narrow-minded way of life. |
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