What is the "Puritan utilitarian view of art"?

Question:

What is the "Puritan utilitarian view of art"?

One of my questions for English is to write an essay on how Anne Bradstreet's poetry conforms to the Puritan utilitarian view of art. One problem: I don't know what that is. Help?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Is what she wrote useful? That is Utilitarian.