Anne BradstreetOne of the most unusual American poets of the seventeenth century was Anne Bradstreet, daughter of Thomas Dudley and wife of Simon Bradstreet, both governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Amid the tasks of the wife of a prominent official and the mother of eight children, she found time to devote to the pursuit of poetry. This first book-length critical examination of Anne Bradstreet's writings appraises her poetry and assesses it against the background of her life and times. Her intelligent and well-educated mind at times rebelled and questioned the life and even the religion of which she had become a part. Her poetry is, in a sense, the autobiography of a good woman beset with the paradoxes of faith and doubt, love of family and love of God. -- From publisher's description. |
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