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From: Legacy[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Eberwein examines Bradstreet's shifting but enduring critical appeal, arguing that her intelligence and maternal voice have maintained her literary importance more than her...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Eberwein presents a concise survey of Bradstreet’s life, the themes of her work, and how she represented the age in which she lived regarding her religious beliefs and her...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Female Poets of America[(essay date 1854) In the following essay, Griswold provides a brief introduction to Bradstreet’s career then reprints three representative examples of her work. ] In the works of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, wife of one and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together with Her Prose Remains[(essay date 1897) In the following essay, Norton, a descendant of Bradstreet, summarizes Bradstreet’s life and identifies what he considers her finest poems. ] When it was proposed to me, not long since, to write an...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Feminist WritersIn 1640, Anne Bradstreet became the first person in British North America to have a volume of poetry published when her Several Poems Compiled with a Great Variety of Wit and Learning was printed in Boston,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Anne Bradstreet has long been recognized as the first genuine poet to develop in the English-speaking New World. A recent biographer, Elizabeth Wade White, maintains further that she "was also the first significant woman...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Merrim examines female literary self-representation in the works of Sor Juana and Bradstreet, the first published women poets in the New World. Merrim explains that, despite...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650-1865[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Latta examines domestic, familial, and spiritual bonds in Bradstreet's poetry, arguing that the poet's focus on the distinction between the spiritual and the physical expresses...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedElizabeth Clinton's 'The Countesse of Lincolne's Nurserie' may very well have been a sociopolitical influence on Anne Bradstreet's writings. The Clinton treatise was on breast-feeding, written mainly for the author's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Early American Literature[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Hilliker compares the writings of Anne Bradstreet and Marie de l'Incarnation, specifically their use of the rhetoric of familial education. He examines their works within the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAnne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism in The Tenth Muse (1650) In his commendatory poem included at the beginning of The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America, Nathaniel Ward praises Anne Bradstreet as "a right...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Puritan American Spirituality[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Derounian-Stodola focuses on the commendatory pieces that accompany both the 1650 and 1678 editions of Bradstreet’s poems. She asserts that they acknowledge Bradstreet’s...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEarly American writer Anne Bradstreet was an example of a woman who destabilized the politics of print medium by her publications. The discourse of sexuality was complicated by the figure of England's Elizabeth I because...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn her American Triptych, Wendy Martin epitomizes the traditional feminist criticism of Anne Bradstreet's poetry when she identifies 'An Author to her Book" as the moment when Bradstreet begins to "view her daily...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Anne Bradstreet and Her Time[(essay date 1891) In the following essays, Campbell notes Bradstreet’s debilitating bouts of depression and discusses the effects on her of old friends from England and new friends in America. She also examines the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:American Writers, Supplement 1 (Vol. 1. )Introduction ANNE BRADSTREET was a Puritan, an American, a woman, and a poet—four facts that greatly affect the way we read her work. As the Puritan struggled with her worldliness, the American took a lively interest...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Dalhousie Review[(essay date 1974) In the following essay, Waller argues that Bradstreet is representative of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women poets in England and America. Waller examines women’s difficulty in seeing themselves...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedANYONE who has studied Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser at the historical level will acknowledge that both are, in some significant sense, Puritan writers. For instance, one can point to well-known passages in the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Gim examines representations of Elizabeth I in the work of Bradstreet and Dutch scholar van Schurman. Gim notes that both van Schurman and Bradstreet praised Elizabeth as their...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Early American Literature[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Wright argues that while Bradstreet outwardly accepted traditional views of women's subservience, she used her poetry to negotiate her own--and by extension, women's--literary...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center