{"product_id":"the-works-of-anne-bradstreet-john-harvard-library","title":"The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne 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 Bradstreets 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 Richs 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 Bradstreets 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955448672309,"sku":"ByrdShop_067495999X","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674959996.jpg?v=1770308156","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-works-of-anne-bradstreet-john-harvard-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}