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  • Aldridge, A. Owen. "Anne Bradstreet: Some Thoughts on the Tenth Muse." In his Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach, pp. 25–52. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. (Considers the possible influence of Bradstreet on the Spanish poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.)
  • Cowell, Partie, and Ann Stanford, eds. Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1983, 286 p. (Includes Colonial, nineteenth-century, and twentieth-century responses to Bradstreet's work.)
  • Eberwein, Jane Donahue. "Civil War and Bradstreet's 'Monarchies'." Early American Literature XXVI, No. 2 (Fall 1991), 119–44. (Argues that the "Four Monarchies" were so important to Bradstreet because of their relevance to the English Civil War.)
  • Eberwein, Jane Donahue. "The 'Unrefined Ore' of Anne Bradstreet's Quaternions." Early American Literature IX, No. 1 (Spring 1974): 19–26. (Argues that Bradstreet's early poetry displays many of the techniques she uses to different effect in the more highly regarded later poetry.)
  • Maragou, Helena. "The Portrait of Alexander the Great in Anne Bradstreet's 'The Third Monarchy'." Early American Literature XXIII, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 70–81. (Explores the contradictions between Bradstreet's portrait of Alexander the Great and tenets of Puritan theology.)
  • Margerum, Eileen. "Anne Bradstreet's Public Poetry and the Tradition of Humility." Early American Literature XVII, No. 2 (Fall 1982): 152–60. (Discusses Bradstreet's subversive use of the modesty topos.)
  • Martin, Wendy. "Anne Bradstreet: 'As Weary Pilgrim'." In her An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, pp 15–76. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. (Presents a comprehensive portrait of Bradstreet and her work, with an emphasis on the historical context.)
  • Piercy, Josephine K. Anne Bradstreet. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1965, 144 p. (Focuses on Bradstreet's life and summarizes critical perspectives on her work.)
  • Porterfield, Amanda. "Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, and the Importance of Women in Puritan Culture." In her Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism, pp. 80–115. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (Argues that Bradstreet played an important role in the development of Puritan culture.)
  • Rosenmeier, Rosamond R. "The Wounds upon Bathsheba: Anne Bradstreet's Prophetic Art." In Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice, edited by Peter White, pp. 129–46. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. (Explores the influence of biblical prophecy on Bradstreet's style and technique.)
  • Schweitzer, Ivy. "Anne Bradstreet Wrestles with the Renaissance." Early American Literature XXIII, No. 3 (1988): 291–312. (Argues that in the course of her career Bradstreet grew beyond the Renaissance models used in her early work.)
  • Skeick, William J., and JoElla Doggett. "Anne Bradstreet." In their Seventeenth-Century American Poetry: A Reference Guide, pp. 34–54. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1977. (Covers Bradstreet criticism from 1844 to 1975.)
  • Stanford, Anne. Anne Bradstreet: The Worldly Puritan—An Introduction to Her Poetry. New York: Burt Franklin & Co., 1974, 170 p. (Analyzes Bradstreet's poetry, arguing that her "entire canon represents the struggle between the visible and invisible worlds." Also includes a chronology of Bradstreet's works, a list of books with which she was familiar, and a selected critical bibliography.)
  • Waller, Jennifer R. " 'My Hand a Needle Better Fits': Anne Bradstreet and Women Poets in the Renaissance." Dalhousie Review 54, No. 3 (Autumn 1974): 436–50. (Compares Bradstreet to female poets of the English Renaissance.)
  • White, Elizabeth Wade. "The Tenth Muse—A Tercentenary Appraisal of Anne Bradstreet." William and Mary Quarterly VIII, No. 3 (July 1951): 355–77. (Suggests that Bradstreet was the first Englishwoman to write poetry professionally.)
  • White, Elizabeth Wade. Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971, 410 p. (Standard biography of Bradstreet.)

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