Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: John Allyn Smith
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Gender roles, Poetry or poets, New England, England or English people, Women’s issues, Seventeenth century, Women, Women’s rights, Puritans or Puritanism
It was irrelevant to Berryman whether on not the historical figure represented in his Homage to Mistress Bradstreet ever actually experienced the discontent described in the poem. The Bradstreet it describes is a montage of frustrations, temptations, and feelings of guilt, very much like those of the poet who created hen. Though Berryman had written the poem's first stanza and several lines of the second in March, 1948, he set them aside for nearly five years until the tone of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March (1953) gave him inspiration for the idiom he sought....
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