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Anne was born in Northampton, England in 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. [6]Due to her family's position, she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages, and literature.
"Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666", commonly shortened to "Verses upon the Burning of Our House", is a poem by Anne Bradstreet. She wrote it to express the traumatic loss of her home and most of her possessions.
John Milton (1608–1674), most famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), was an English poet with religious beliefs emphasizing central Puritanical views.While the work acted as an expression of his despair over the failure of the Puritan Revolution against the English Catholic Church, it also indicated his optimism in human potential.
"Contemplations" is a 17th-century poem by English colonist Anne Bradstreet. The poem's meaning is debated, with some scholars arguing that it is a Puritan religious poem while others argue that it is a Romantic poem .
[citation needed] Bradstreet wrote the poem "The Author to Her Book" in 1666 when a second edition was contemplated. The book was published, without Bradstreet's knowledge, by the Rev. John Woodbridge. Woodbridge took the manuscript to England where it was published. The "Four Monarchies" is regarded by some critics as epic. [2]
God's Grandeur - poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins redirects to author; Mr. Flood's Party - poem by Edward Arlington Robinson - Redirects to author; Dream Variations - poem by Langston Hughes; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles-poem by John Keats; Song of the Chattahoochee < Sidney Lanier poem; the Flesh and the Spirit - poem by Anne Bradstreet
Bradstreet's first posthumous edition. Anne Bradstreet, Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, a reprint of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in Boston, Massachusetts (original volume published in London in 1650) with significant additions, including "Contemplations", said to be her best poem; original, full title: "The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up ...
Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia [1]; Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America American poet published this volume in London; full title: "The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, or Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, Wherein especially is Contained a Complete Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of ...