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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was the first person in America, male or female, to have a volume of poems published. She herself wasn’t American and had been born in England, but she was among a group of early English settlers in Massachusetts in the 1630s.
- Anne Bradstreet – Interesting Literature
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Verses upon...
- Upon The Burning of Our House
In 1666, a great fire consumed much of the considerable...
- The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was the first person in America,...
- Anne Bradstreet – Interesting Literature
Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as an accomplished New World Poet. Her volume of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America... received considerable favorable attention when it was first published in London in 1650.
- The Four Elements. Anne Bradstreet’s ‘The Four Elements’ depicts elemental conflict, resolution through mediation, and the importance of natural balance.
- A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment. My head, my heart, mine Eyes, my life, nay more, My joy, my Magazine of earthly store, If two be one, as surely thou and I,
- Before the Birth of One of Her Children. ‘Before the Birth of One of Her Children’ by Anne Bradstreet is a moving poem about a woman’s opinion on death.
- The Author to Her Book. Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published.
- Ann Bradstreet on Religion
- On The Role of Women
- On Eternity
From "Before the Birth of One of Her Children": And from "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666":
Anne Bradstreet also alludes to the role of women and to women's capabilities in many poems. She seems especially concerned to defend the presence of Reason in women. Among her earlier poems, the one extolling Queen Elizabeth includes these lines, revealing the sly wit that's in many of Anne Bradstreet's poems: In another, she seems to refer to the...
In contrast, perhaps, to her acceptance of adversity in this world, and her hope of eternity in the next, Anne Bradstreet also seems to hope that her poems will bring a kind of earthly immortality. These excerpts are from two different poems:
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Nov 10, 2009 · This testimony was taken by Simon Bradstreet, the “dear and loving husband” of the poet Anne, an ironic connection between two women who have come to represent two distinct, often competing ways of challenging the prevailing views of women.
Anne Bradstreet wrote in the Elizabethan literary tradition and became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies.
