Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an American political activist, and a philosopher. Paine is the author of the famous pamphlets, including "The Rights of Man" and "Common”. Paine is believed to have inspired the patriots, his focused audience was to become independent from Great Britain in 1776. His writing style is often noted by arrogance, as in pamphlet series An American Crisis.
Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672) she was a poet and the first woman in America to write a book of poems. she began writing, her poems that aimed to educate her children about the trials and tribulations she went through. Her husband and children were her only audience, but soon she gbecame popular in her society. She wrote with compassion and wrote many love poems for her husband and children, but also religious poems. we can clearly notice her sarcastic tone towards the society and its everyday habits.
