Anne Bradstreet Summary

Bradstreet, Anne 1612 Northampton, England September 16, 1672 North Andover, Massachusetts Colonial American poet "All things within this fading world hath end,/Adversity doth still our joys at... Read more

Biography EssayAnne 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 favor... Read more

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 wh... Read more

In the following excerpt, Rosenfeld discusses Bradsteet's "Contemplations" in terms of its similarities with the works of later Romantic poets. On first reading, the thirty-three ... Read more

In the following essay, Saltman examines Bradstreet's "Contemplations" in the context of Puritan theology and Biblical inspiration. Anne Bradstreet's poem "Contempla... Read more

In the following excerpt, Sweet considers the ways in which Bradstreet created a feminine poetic persona for herself in the context of the male poetic tradition. Bradstreet and "the kinship bet... Read more

In the following excerpt, Caldwell discusses Bradstreet's struggle with traditional male images symbolizing poetic creation, and concludes that Bradstreet became the founder of American poetry ... Read more

Here, Wilson argues that the sublime first emerges in American poetry in Bradstreet's verse. That there is a God my Reason would soon tell meby the wondrous workes that I see, the vast frameof... Read more

The Writings of Anne Bradstreet: Rhetoric The works of Anne Bradstreet have become a staple in American Literary studies, and rightly so. The most prominent educators in the field utilize her writin... Read more