bradstreet 1612 1672 overview 1628 married Simon Bradstreet at age 16 1630 immigrated to Massachusetts Bay in the first wave of the Great Migration on the Arbella 1650 published ID: 424329
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Anne bradstreet
1612 - 1672Slide2
overview
1628 married Simon Bradstreet at age 16
1630 immigrated to Massachusetts Bay in the first wave of the Great Migration on the
Arbella
1650 published
The Tenth Muse
(London)
Mother of 8 children
Husband was an important leader in Mass Bay
First colonist to write a sizable body of verseSlide3
Bradstreet’s poetry
Reveals the touchingly human drama of Puritan life
Written in clear, unadorned style
Imitates English Renaissance poets
Shows a capable Christian artist grappling with questions that still concern Christians today
Both public and private
Public poems highly imitative of what she believed her intended audience wanted
Private much freer in content, not published until after her death
Religious and domestic (domestic even contain religious content)
Vented her rebellion against the Puritan view of the womanSlide4
From “The Prologue”
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong,
For such despite they cast on Female wits:
If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,
They’l
say it’s
stoln
, or else it was by
chance.
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what
they are
Men have precedency and still
excell
,
It is but vain unjustly to wage
warre
;
Men can do best, and women know it well
Preheminence
in all and each is yours;
Yet grant some small
ackowledgement
of
ours.Slide5
Personal poetry
Glories in her responsibility as a wife“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Glories in her responsibilities as a mother
“In Reference to Her Children”
Cheerful submission to God’s will
“On My Dear Grandchild”
“Upon the Burning of Our House”