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1. The Works of Anne Bradstreet (The John Harvard Library) by Anne Bradstreet | |
Paperback: 384
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(2010-04-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies.This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work.Hensley's introduction sketches the poet's life, and Adrienne Rich's foreword offers a sensitive critique of Bradstreet as a person and as a writer. The John Harvard Library edition includes a chronology of Bradstreet's life and an updated bibliography. Customer Reviews (1)
Early American Poetics From a Female Perspective |
2. Anne Bradstreet: A Guided Tour of the Life And Thought of a Puritan Poet by Heidi L. Nichols | |
Paperback: 210
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(2006-01)
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3. The Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet | |
Paperback: 518
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(2008-08-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne Bradstreet sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630, shortly after her marriage at sixteen to Simon Bradstreet. For the next forty years she lived in the New England wilderness, raising a family of eight, combating sickness and hardship, and writing the verse that made her, as the poet Adrienne Rich says in her Foreword to this edition, "the first non-didactic American poet, the first to give an embodiment to American nature, the first in whom personal intention appears to precede Puritan dogma as an impulse to verse." All Anne Bradstreet's extant poetry and prose is published here with modernized spelling and punctuation. This volume reproduces the second edition of Several Poems, brought out in Boston in 1678, as well as the contents of a manuscript first printed in 1857. Adrienne Rich's Foreword offers a sensitive and illuminating critique of Anne Bradstreet both as a person and as a writer, and the Introduction, scholarly notes, and appendices by Jeannine Hensley make this an authoritative edition. Adrienne Rich observes, "Intellectual intensity among women gave cause for uneasiness" at this period--a fact borne out by the lines in the Prologue to the early poems: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits." The broad scope of Anne Bradstreet's own learning and reading is most evident in the literary and historical allusions of The Tenth Muse, the first edition of her poems, published in London in 1650. Her later verse and her prose meditations strike a more personal note, however, and reveal both a passionate religious sense and a depth of feeling for her husband, her children, the fears and disappointments she constantly faced, and the consoling power of nature. Imbued with a Puritan striving to turn all events to the glory of God, these writings bear the mark of a woman of strong spirit, charm, delicacy, and wit: in their intimate and meditative quality Anne Bradstreet is established as a poet of sensibility and permanent stature. Customer Reviews (7)
Favorite Poet
Bradstreet's Complete Works are Worth Reading
My family
America's first great poet
Anne Bradstreet's voice reaches across the centuries. |
4. To My Husband and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Anne Bradstreet | |
Paperback: 80
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(2000-12-21)
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what's not to love?
Clever and Modest Protest Poem
One of the great foremothers of American literature Many of the poems in this volume are about her family members, and about the joys and sorrows of family life. Bradstreet writes with great warmth and sensitivity about her husband, children, parents, grandchildren, and daughter-in-law. Her poem "To my Dear and loving Husband" is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful love poems ever written. Overall, her family-related poems give real insight into the struggles faced by women of her era, but these poems also have a universality that transcends her time. There is a lot of other good stuff in this volume. Bradstreet's voice is often quite witty (especially in "The Author to her Book"). "The Prologue" is a fascinating proto-feminist defense of female literary aspiration. Also fascinating is her tribute to England's Queen Elizabeth I. Bradstreet's poetry is essential for scholars of American literature. But her work should be read not just for scholarship, but also for the real humanity and artistry of her voice. ... Read more |
5. The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse by Anne Bradstreet | |
Paperback: 262
Pages
(2010-03)
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6. Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet by Charlotte Gordon | |
Hardcover: 352
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(2005-03-23)
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Bradstreet is Not America's First English Poet
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Mistress Bradstreet The Untold Life of America's First Poet
Another Misleading Puritan Book |
7. Anne Bradstreet - The Complete Collection | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2009-01-27)
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8. A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Vintage) by Elaine Showalter | |
Paperback: 608
Pages
(2010-01-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--brimming with Elaine Showalter’s characteristic wit and incisive opinions--we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only famous and expected names (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult among them), but also many who were once successful and acclaimed yet now are little known, from the early American best-selling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter shows how these writers--both the enduring stars and the ones left behind by the canon--were connected to one another and to their times. She believes it is high time to fully integrate the contributions of women into our American literary heritage, and she undertakes the task with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place. Whether or not readers agree with the book’s roster of writers, A Jury of Her Peers is an irresistible invitation to join the debate, to discover long-lost great writers, and to return to familiar titles with a deeper appreciation. It is a monumental work that will greatly enrich our understanding of American literary history and culture. Here’s my starting guide to ten extraordinary works of fiction--one from each decade of the twentieth century--that deserve to be much better known. Gilman’s clever utopian novel imagines three American men on a scientific expedition who hear tales of a “strange and terrible Woman Land in the high distance,” and decide to find and invade it. Expecting to rule over the women, the men are astounded, entranced, and defeated by the resourcefulness of an all-female society. Fisher was a prolific novelist, a judge for the Book of the Month Club, and a pioneer of Montessori education in the U.S.She claimed that The Home-Maker was more about children’s rights than women’s rights, but she empathized with all the members of a middle-class family whose lives are being destroyed by the straitjacket of maintaining proper male and female roles. When an accident forces the husband and wife to change places, everyone is much happier. This could be a comic premise--Mr. Mom--but Fisher treats it with seriousness and psychological insight. Slesinger used her disillusion with the whole cultural spectrum of the 1930s for her sparkling satire of the New York leftwing editors of a radical magazine. The novel is both a penetrating autobiographical portrait of the divided woman intellectual of the decade, painfully torn between party politics and personal emancipation; and a timeless and very funny lampoon of ideologues driven by vanity, political trendiness, and competition. Stafford was at her best in this powerful coming-of-age novel about a young brother and sister, Ralph and Molly Fawcett, who spend their summers at their grandfather’s ranch in Colorado. While Ralph is being initiated into adventurous manhood, Molly is fiercely and tragicallyresisting the dull femininity which lies in store for her. The only novel by the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha tells the story of a poor black Chicago housewife, in a lyrical form like that of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, but suffused with anger against racism, war, and the daily small tragedies of black women’s lives. An American classic. Long overlooked, Jackson’s masterpiece has been rediscovered in the twenty-first century by writers from Stephen King and Jonathan Lethem to Joyce Carol Oates. A perfectly constructed and spine-chilling example of the female gothic, the novel was among the first great stories of the weird girl, part teenage outcast, part witch, as a dark heroine of American horror. While Diane Johnson’s novels about Americans in Paris (such as Le Divorce) have been bestsellers, The Shadow Knows is my favorite among her books.Set in Northern California in the early 1970s, it is about the racial conflict and paranoia of the decade, and, in Johnson’s words, “about persons on the fringe; they happen to be women, and what happens to them is meant to be particular to America in the seventies.” In her first novel, Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Robinson traced the lives of three generations of women in the imaginary Idaho town of Fingerbone, which is surrounded by mountains and next to a dark lake. The narrator, Ruth, and her sister, Lucille, are passed from one family caregiver to another; finally, their aunt Sylvie Fisher, a wanderer and transient, comes back to keep house for them. But Sylvie’s bizarre housekeeping is like something out of a gothic fairy tale, and the sisters find their separate ways to create their own domestic visions. Gish Jenis one of the funniest and most free-wheeling novelists of the multicultural 90s. In Mona in the Promised Land, whose title plays off a long tradition of Jewish-American immigrant writing, the adolescent Chinese-American heroine Mona Chang is at a new stage of ethnic identity, renaming and self-creation. In their own enclave, she and her high school friends exchange food, music, games, and politics. In the promised land, American girls can change their names, their religions, even re-invent their nationalities. Customer Reviews (12)
Jury of Her Peers
Fascinating and comprehensive
Showalter is a joke
Evolution of women authors
A Jury of Her Peers |
9. Anne Bradstreet and her time by Helen Campbell | |
Paperback: 392
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(2010-09-08)
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10. Beyond Stateliest Marble: The Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet (Leaders in Action Series) by Douglas Wilson | |
Hardcover: 255
Pages
(2001-05)
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Where's Anne?
Puritan Femininity
The Poet Got Left Behind Wilson constantly harps and carps about the bad rap given to the Puritans. Even when I agree that certain common statements about the Puritans are unfair and incorrect, I am put off by his pompous tone. Skip this one. Go straight to "The Works of Anne Bradstreet" (Harvard University Press) to get a good dose of a fine poet. ... Read more |
11. Anne Bradstreet; Young Puritan Poet. by Montrew Dunham | |
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(1969-06)
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12. An American Triptych : Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich by Wendy Martin | |
Paperback: 282
Pages
(1984-01-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description Wendy Martin recreates the textures of these women's lives, showing how they parallel the shifts in the status of American women from private companion to participant in a wider public life.The three portraits examine in detail the life and work of the Puritan wife of a colonial magistrate, the white-robed, reclusive New England seer, and the modern feminist and lesbian activist.Their poetry, Martin argues, tells us much about the evolution of feminist and patriarchal perspectives, from Bradstreet's resigned acceptance of traditional religion, to Dickinson's private rebellion, to Rich's public criticism of traditional masculine culture.Together, these portraits compose the panels of an American triptych. Beyond the dramatic contrasts between the Puritan and feminist vision, Martin finds striking parallels in form.An ideal of a new world, whether it be the city on the hill or a supportive community of women, inspires both.Like the commonwealth of saints, this concept of a female collectivity, which all three poets embrace, is a profoundly political phenomenon based on a pattern of protest and reform that is deeply rooted in American life.Martin suggests that, through their belief in regeneration and renewal, Bradstreet Dickinson, and Rich are part of a larger political as well as literary tradition.An American Triptych both enhances ourunderstanding of the poets' work as part of the web of American experience and suggests the outlines of an American female poetic. Customer Reviews (1)
A mustforanyone interested |
13. Gender Roles, Literary Authority, and Three American Women Writers: Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Age of Revolution and Romanticism) by Theresa Freda Nicolay | |
Hardcover: 166
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(1995-12)
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14. The poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): together with her prose remains ; with an introduction by Charles Eliot Norton by Anne Bradstreet, Charles Eliot Norton, Frank Easton Hopkins | |
Paperback: 434
Pages
(2010-08-23)
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15. Anne Bradstreet (Christian Encounters Series) by D.B. Kellogg | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2010-08-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience Anne Bradstreet is recognized as one of the most important figures in the history of American literature, yet the majority of her poetry remained private until after her death. As a Puritan wife and mother, Anne knew that sharing her views and opinions with others was considered a sin, but she clearly valued knowledge and intellect, and was a free thinker. Bradstreet's work serves as a document of the struggles of the hardships of colonial life and in some ways is a testament to the plight of the women of the age. Anne's life was a constant struggle, from her difficult adaptation to the rigors of the new land, to her constant battle with illness. She turned inward and let her faith and imagination guide her through the most difficult moments. Her poetry, filled with the love she had for God, her husband, and her eight children, showcased her intense devotion to being a good wife, mother, and Christian. Customer Reviews (31)
Excellent
A Great Way to Read about incredible people from our past!
Enjoyable though could be better
Great book about an amazing woman!
Interesting Life, Not a Very Good Book |
16. Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse by Elizabeth Wade White | |
Hardcover: 428
Pages
(1972-04-20)
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17. The complete works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet | |
Hardcover: 536
Pages
(1981)
Isbn: 0805785337 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
18. Anne Bradstreet Revisited (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by Rosamond Rosenmeier | |
Hardcover: 174
Pages
(1991-06)
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19. The Poems Of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet: Together With Her Prose Remains (1897) by Anne Bradstreet | |
Paperback: 422
Pages
(2010-09-10)
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20. Anne Bradstreet: America's Puritan Poet by Marcia Hoehne | |
Hardcover: 203
Pages
(2007-01)
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