Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan writer who had an extensive and varied collection of works. The simplicity and stark reality of her poems tugged the heartstrings of a wide range of readers, even the less skilled ones. Some of the topics she wrote about were spirituality and theology, culture and nature, family, death, history, and the relation between faith and doubt. Bradstreet was particularly known for her studious application of form and technique in her writing. Her so-called "plain style" was marked by her artful simplicity and absence of rhetorical ornamentation.
