Background
Anne Dudley, born about 1612 probably in Northampton, England, grew up in the cultivated household of the Earl of Lincoln, where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward.
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The daughter of one colonial governor and the wife of another, Anne Dudley Bradstreet (161272) 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 Bradstreets 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.
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Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreets work. Hensleys introduction sketches the poets life, and Adrienne Richs foreword offers a sensitive critique of Bradstreet as a person and as a writer. The John Harvard Library edition includes a chronology of Bradstreets life and an updated bibliography.
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When it was proposed to me, not long since, to write an introduction to the edition of the poems of Mrs. A nne Bradstreet which The Duodecimos were about to issue, many reasons compelled me to decline the task. The request, however, led me to take up once more, after an interval of many years, the poems of the tenth Muse, as Mrs. Bradstreet was termed on the title-page of the first edition of her verses, and I turned to the elaborate and excellent edition of them published, thirty years ago, by Mr. John Harvard Ellis. After looking them through, I came on the Elegy upon the truly pious, peerless, and matchless gentlewoman Mrs. A nne Bradstreet, written by my ancestor the Reverend John Norton, of Hingham. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Anne Dudley, born about 1612 probably in Northampton, England, grew up in the cultivated household of the Earl of Lincoln, where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward.
Her later work reveals familiarity with Plutarch, Du Bartas, Sir Walter Raleigh, Quarles, Sidney, Spenser, perhaps Shakespeare, and, of course, the Bible.
He graduated from Emmanuel College and, like the Dudleys, had strong Nonconformist convictions.
At 16 she experienced conversion.
In 1630 the Bradstreets sailed to America aboard the Arbella with Dudley and the Winthrop company.
His duties required that he be away from home frequently.
"The Four Elements, " "The Four Humours in Man's Constitution, " "The Four Ages of Man, " and "The Four Seasons of the Year" are allegorical pieces, heavily influenced by Joshua Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas's Divine Weeks and Works .
Bradstreet herself added to and corrected her next volume, Several Poems, published posthumously in Boston in 1678.
It includes "Contemplations, " the fine, long reflective poem on death and resurrection in nature, as well as the dramatic poem "The Flesh and the Spirit, " the lively words of "The Author to Her Book, " and moving verses addressed to her husband and children.
Her prose "Meditations" and some of her more confessional pieces remained in manuscript until 1867, when John H. Ellis published her complete works.
In her own day she was praised by Cotton Mather in his Magnalia, by Nathaniel Ward, and others.
Her poems were first published in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (London, 1650), and several fuller editions have appeared since her death.
Her longer poems, which include discourses on the four elements, the four humours, the four ages of man, and the four monarchies, show the pervasive influence of Francis Quarles, Sir Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser, as well as of Joshua Sylvester's translation of Seigneur Du Bartas' La Semaine; but her later and shorter poems, especially her Contemplations, are less dependent on stock poetic conventions and contain more original lyric expression.
( The daughter of one colonial governor and the wife of a...)
(When it was proposed to me, not long since, to write an i...)
(Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
Religion was an inportant motive of her poetry. In her works she described the life and traditions of the Puritans.
Despite the traditional attitude toward women of the time, she clearly valued knowledge and intellect; she was a free thinker and some consider her an early feminist. The role of women is a common subject found in Bradstreet's poems. Living in a Puritan society, Bradstreet did not approve of the stereotypical idea that women were inferior to men during the 1600s. Women were expected to spend all their time cooking, cleaning, taking care of their children, and attending to their husband's every need. In her poem "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory, " Bradstreet questions this belief.
At the age of sixteen she married Simon Bradstreet. The couple had 8 children.
