The Relationships between Religion and literature at the Age of Plantation in America

本项目的目标是研究和分析美国种植园时代清教徒诗人的宗教与创作之间的关系。包括三个阶段：1.从文学史和哲学史的角度分析清教主义在安妮·布拉德斯特里特和爱德华·泰勒诗学中的意义和影响；2.从传记和文体的角度分析安妮·布拉德斯特里特和爱德华·泰勒在生活和创作中对清教主义的欣赏和运用；3.收集关于安妮·布拉德斯特里特和爱德华·泰勒的文章、评论和书籍。它揭示了安妮·布拉德斯特里特的清教徒生活是她诗歌创作的保证，并揭示了清教徒的想象力如何在爱德华·泰勒的诗歌中创造出常识之外的话语。这一项目的结果将有助于理解美国种植园时代的哲学和想象力结构，为揭示几乎所有诗人和作家背后的美国想象力的秘密提供线索。

This project established its goal to research on and analyze the relationship between religion and creation in Puritan poets at the age of plantation in America. It had three stages ; 1.analysis of the meaning and influence of Puritanism in the poetics of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor from the viewpoint of the history of literature and philosophy ; 2.analysis of how Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor appreciate and make use of Puritanism in their lives and creations from the viewpoint of biography and styles ; 3.collection of articles, criticisms, and books on Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor.This project was done through the traditional way of analysis in literature, and re-evaluated puritanism as a means to give imagination to the poets ; it revealed that it is her puritanistic life that guaranteed Anne Bradstreet's poems, and it made clear how the puritanistic imagination gave discourses out of common sense in Edward Taylor's poetics.The results of this project will help to understand the philosophical and imaginative structure in the age of plantation in America, giving hints to the secret of the American imagination which underlies almost all poets and authors.