| Front | Anne Bradstreet |
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| Back | 1612-72 American's first published poet her collection of poems, the Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America, 1650 Several Poems Compiled with a Great Variety of Wit, appeared after six years of her death her poems follow Elizabethan models specially Spenser, Sidney, du Bartas and Raleigh quatrains as 'the four elements', 'the four humorous', 'the four ages of man' , 'the four seasons' a series of emblematic stanzas on themes of time and mutability; elegies on the Sidney, du Bartas and Queen Elizabeth her later poems are more personal in subject and less conventional in form, often mediating on domestic topics from a religious point of view. this group includes poems to her husband and elegies on her dead children Anne Bradstreet (March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672), née Dudley, was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously. |
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