M.A. Richmond states in Bid the Vassal Soar, “There is a marked similarity between the two poets in the accent on personal humility and deep religious feeling.” The two poets that the quote is referring to, are Anne Bradstreet, and Phillis Wheatley. Bradstreet and Wheatly may have been different on the outside, but their writing styles are very similar. They both wrote much more intellectually than women of their time were expected to be able to. In Anne Bradstreet's 60 years, she became an accomplished writer. She was the first North ....