ing religion and aesthetic values. They agree he did this by congratulating the primitive order of liberty and assigning it as beautiful, like the beginning Christian churches (Emerson 13). Besides William Bradford, another American author was practicing the same type of writing but was already known because his grandfather was a famous politician in the Puritan time period. He was Cotton Mather and his grandfather was Increase Mather. Cotton Mather was famous for his religious points of view and was able to influence his grandfather's decisions in the matter. He was branded for Magnalia Christi Americana for portraying his in-depth insight and analysis of the Puritan society (Reuben 1). This writing focuses on the settlement of New England through the eyes of ordinary puritan people. Mather basically produced a book of biographies and was able to make his work famous because of his advanced thoughts on medicine, principle in education, study of plant life, and desire to benefit humanity (Vanspackeren 1). Even though Mather is respected today and his writing is understood by critics as important to American culture; it was not always like this. It is said that he had an incredibly narrow mind and was seen by outsiders as odd and "out of the realm" of the time period. This made him not respected or listened to as much as he could have been because he was questioned several times about his own religious morals and why he could question the morals of other puritans (Vanspackeren 12). Both Bradford and Mather are examples of the early puritan time period, but quite a few other authors were able to tell of puritan tradition and help establish morals into colonies still practiced today. Other authors include Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Johnathon Edwards. The early puritan time period was most affective in middle 1600's (Vanspackeren 1) (Angelou 1).
After the early puritan era, the revolutiona...