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| Anne Bradstreet |
| 安妮•布拉茲特里特 |
| 圖片來源：http://www.uky.edu/AS/English/courses/online/eng251/Bradstreet.gif |
| 主要文類：Poem |
| 資料提供者：Margarette Connor;Ron Tranquilla |
| 關鍵字詞：Early American Women Writers: Voices in the Wilderness; American Literature Survey I |
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Anne Bradstreet |
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The "biggest" name is Anne Bradstreet
The first published book of poems by an
American was also the first American book to be published by a woman
Published in England because of the lack
of printing presses in the early years of the first American colonies.
Born and educated in England, Anne Bradstreet
was the daughter of an earl's estate manager
Emigrated with her family when she was 18
Husband eventually became governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, which later grew into the great city of Boston.
Inspired by English metaphysical poetry,
and her book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650) shows the
influence of Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Donne.
She preferred her long, religious poems on conventional subjects such
as the seasons, but today's readers most enjoy the witty poems on subjects
from daily life and her warm and loving poems to her husband and children.
(An example is "To My Dear and Loving Husband")
In her we also see her struggle
with the gender issues of authorship that British women's writing reflects
in this period, and indeed through the 18th century. (An example is
"From an Author to Her Book") |
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