The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Dudley
- First Published: 1650
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Children, Husbands, Mothers, Parents and children, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Seventeenth century, Death or dying, Faith, Puritans or Puritanism
Form and Content
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems by Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley) which was published in London by an admiring brother-in-law. The volume begins with a number of short poems honoring Bradstreet by various New England worthies, followed by a respectful poem dedicated to her father Thomas Dudley, after which appear longer scholarly poems (“quaternions”) on the four elements (fire, earth, water, and air); the four humors (or bodily fluids); the four ages of life; the four seasons; and the four “monarchies” (a...
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