Anne Bradstreet

A look at America's first poet and an analysis of one of her most famous pieces.

Anne Bradstreet has been labeled as one of the greatest poets of Colonial America. Indeed, many have called her the greatest poet of her time. Anne Bradstreet accomplished a remarkable feat for a female living in her position, time period, and social realm.

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.

This essay examines how Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor's colonial American poetry overcame restrictive barriers to creativity and allowed for greater poetic self-confidence demonstrated in Walt Whitman's work.

A brief biography of America's first female poet, Anne Bradstreet.

In the "Prologue" that introduces The Tenth Muse, Bradstreet anticipates the skepticism of her audience and skillfully forestalls it by using satire to both prove her poetic skill and to consol a threatened male audience.

The first American female poet and the first African-American poet of either gender, Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley insert feminist and equal rights themes into their otherwise orthodox works.

Anne Bradstreet wrote both secular and non-secular poetry, most of which was in iambic pentameter. She was a mother and a writer, though she did not accept her fame as the latter.

Although I agree with Mr. McElrath that Bradstreet's works are 'of primary literary and historical significance,' I utterly disagree with his statements of her work being completely corrupted by other persons.

Submissiveness is present in the works of both Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley, two early American female poets. While Bradstreet submits completely, Wheatley fights against it, a reflection of the time in which she wrote.

Bradstreet leaves underlying tones in her poems that suggest even though at the surface it seems as though the words go with the grain of women's place in society, when taking a closer look they in fact defy the mold for women in this time period.