Anne Bradstreet is perhaps one of the most well known American Puritans. Born Anne Dudley in Northampton, England in 1612, Bradstreet was one of the few women in American Puritan society that had been educated. Because of this education, Bradstreet faced a number of notable challenges when it came to maintaining her position in Puritan ...
Said to be one of the most important poets of early America, Anne Bradstreet was indeed the first woman American Poet. Her writing surely not only was a means of maintaining the love of literature and learning left behind in old England, and also a way of coping with the struggles of life in the ...
“The groundhog didn’t see his shadow!” That was one of the best things I heard in recent times. Ah, spring is near. It’s not just the season of beautiful crisp blue skies, warm days and balmy evenings, but on a deeper level spring signifies rebirth, renewal and hope as demonstrated in these inspiring spring quotes. ...
When Anne Bradstreet wrote her first book in 1650, Puritan sensibilities concerning the woman’s role were stringently defined. Women were considered subordinate to men and intellectually inferior. As a result, women were largely confined to their domestic roles. This did not include writing literature, and certainly not publishing it, so when Anne Bradstreet published The ...
Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley are, respectively, the first and third published female writers in America. The surprise to those unfamiliar with these writers comes upon discovery that Anne Bradstreet was also the first published poet in the New World, and that Phyllis Wheatley was an African slave. These two women not only overcame the ...
In this class, we have read three poems that were written by Anne Bradstreet upon the deaths of three of her grandchildren: Elizabeth, Simon, and Anne. In each of these poems, Bradstreet ends with a typically-Puritan assertion of God’s divine will and purpose concerning the deaths of these children. However, these last, optimistic, God-praising lines ...
The story of Phillis Wheatley is one of tragedy, though it can also be deemed one of the greatest stories about the excellence of the human spirit ever told. Born circa 1754, Wheatley was kidnapped from Africa and into slavery and sold to John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston, MA, around 1761. During captivity the ...
In the late 1620s, a young Englishwoman sailed for America with her parents and husband. They landed at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, America’s Puritan settlement. Through her struggle with her new life straining to build a home and raise a family in a new country, Anne Bradstreet emerged as the New World’s first female poet. ...
Edgar Allan Poe stated in The Heresy of the Didactic that “poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ” Yes, you can communicate the more “cut and dry” aspects of your affection through the vehicle of prose, but what about the passion and emotion which makes your blood rush and your heart pump ...
