Anne Bradstreet (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Other Literary Forms
Anne Bradstreet’s published collection of 1650 and its revised edition of 1678 consist entirely of poetry, and her reputation rests on her poems. She left in manuscript the prose “Meditations Divine and Morall” (short, pithy proverbs) and a brief autobiography written especially for her children.
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Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor are the two foremost Colonial American poets. They form a classic study in contrasts: She was emotional, he cerebral; she secular, he spiritual; she feminine, he masculine; she stylistically...
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children (Poetry)Contemplations (Poetry)Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, The (Women’s Literature)Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)
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