*rv:11./),i=b.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content");for(c=0;c1e3)g=1e3;else if(~~g<200)g=200;f.height=g}if("link"===d.message)if(h=b.createElement("a"),i=b.createElement("a"),h.href=f.getAttribute("src"),i.href=d.value,i.host===h.host)if(b.activeElement===f)a.top.location.href=d.value}else;}},d)a.addEventListener("message",a.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),b.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",c,!1),a.addEventListener("load",c,!1)}(window,document);//-->, A Description of New England (1616) At the same time, only 15 percent read popular science books. Many literatures from those periods were religious and about gods. The trend of Puritan theology and the hard conditions of life did not encourage the production of poetry. The Bible was read, reread, and constantly studied, and it took the place of secular poetry and prose. The Communal System Abandoned, T. & W., I., 46-49; Twenty-five entries from his Journal or History of New England are given in Cairns, 44-48, and fourteen in T. & W., I., 99-105. On petition, the Lord Bishop of London generously gave this manuscript of 270 pages to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. LITERARY HISTORY OF la hija del fragile John Winthrop was born in the County of Suffolk, England, in 1588, the year of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The literature of England gained something from America as well. [CDATA[//>