The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together With Her Prose Remains; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton (Classic Reprint)

Literature & Fiction

Anne Bradstreet

Poetry

Forgotten Books

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 2nd Edition

William Bradford

John, Winthrop

United States

W.W.Norton&Company

The daughter of one colonial governor and the wife of another, Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612–72) was also a skilled and accomplished writer, whose collection of poetry, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was the first volume of original verse written in the colonies. In addition to being America's first poet, she was also, in great likelihood, the first professional woman poet in the English language. This collection of poetry, selected from a number of her works, discloses the thoughts of a remarkably sensitive and well-educated woman. Exhibiting great range and beauty, the poems encompass everything from lyric verses addressed to her husband and children and a formal elegy in honor of Queen Elizabeth I to loving epitaphs honoring her deceased mother, father, and grandchildren. Grouped according to category (love, home life, religious meditations, dialogues, and lamentations), the poems not only exhibit Anne Bradstreet’s wide learning but also reveal the influence of Montaigne, Homer, Raleigh, Sidney, Spenser, and other poets. Sure to be welcomed by students and teachers, this collection is also important for the light it sheds on the cares, concerns, and roles of colonial women.

To My Husband and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

Dover Publications

Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne Bradstreet sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630, shortly after her marriage at sixteen to Simon Bradstreet. For the next forty years she lived in the New England wilderness, raising a family of eight, combating sickness and hardship, and writing the verse that made her, as the poet Adrienne Rich says in her Foreword to this edition, "the first non-didactic American poet, the first to give an embodiment to American nature, the first in whom personal intention appears to precede Puritan dogma as an impulse to verse." 
 All Anne Bradstreet's extant poetry and prose is published here with modernized spelling and punctuation. This volume reproduces the second edition of Several Poems, brought out in Boston in 1678, as well as the contents of a manuscript first printed in 1857. Adrienne Rich's Foreword offers a sensitive and illuminating critique of Anne Bradstreet both as a person and as a writer, and the Introduction, scholarly notes, and appendices by Jeannine Hensley make this an authoritative edition. 
 Adrienne Rich observes, "Intellectual intensity among women gave cause for uneasiness" at this period--a fact borne out by the lines in the Prologue to the early poems: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits." The broad scope of Anne Bradstreet's own learning and reading is most evident in the literary and historical allusions of The Tenth Muse, the first edition of her poems, published in London in 1650. Her later verse and her prose meditations strike a more personal note, however, and reveal both a passionate religious sense and a depth of feeling for her husband, her children, the fears and disappointments she constantly faced, and the consoling power of nature. Imbued with a Puritan striving to turn all events to the glory of God, these writings bear the mark of a woman of strong spirit, charm, delicacy, and wit: in their intimate and meditative quality Anne Bradstreet is established as a poet of sensibility and permanent stature.

The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library)

Adrienne Rich

Jeannine Hensley

History & Criticism

Belknap Press

Over 30 poems from the first female poet in the United States.

The complete works of Anne Bradstreet

Twayne Publishers

A Woman's Inner World: Selected Poetry and Prose of Anne Bradstreet

A woman's inner world: Selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

Adelaide P. Peditorr Amore

University Press of America

Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN)

The Tenth Muse (1650) and, from the manuscripts, Meditations Divine and Morall together with Letters and Occasional Pieces

Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints - Gainesville, FL

Excerpt from The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together With Her Prose Remains; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot NortonFor my dear son Simon Bradstreet Meditations divine and moral To my dear children By night, when others soundly slept For deliverance from a fever From another sore fit. Deliverance from a fit of fainting Meditations when my soul hath been refreshed Upon my son Samuel his going for England. For the restoration of my dear husband Upon my daughter Hannah Wiggin On my son's return out of England Upon my husband his going into England In my solitary hours For the letters I received from my husband For my husband's safe arrival In silent night, when rest I took.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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