(c1612-1672) Anne Bradstreet is often considered one of the first poets of the Puritan-era America, known for "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" and "Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning." Take a look at books about Anne Bradstreet.
1. Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
by Charlotte Gordon. Little Brown & Company. In Charlotte Gordon's fascinating biography, Anne Bradstreet emerges as "an electrifying personality," who was the first New World poet with her bestselling volume of American poetry. Experience Anne Bradstreet like never before, and learn why her legacy still shapes our imagination!
2. Beyond Stateliest Marble: The Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet
by Douglas Wilson. Cumberland House Publishing. From the publisher: "As was true of the seventeenth-century Puritans, Anne Bradstreet was a colorful, lively, passionate, artful, and delightful person who took great relish in life and reveled in the earthly manifestations of beauty, goodness, and truth."
3. Anne Bradstreet
by Anne Bradstreet and Jeannine Hensley. Harvard University Press. From the publisher: "Anne Bradstreet was one of the earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, published here with modernized spelling and punctuation, brings to light a woman of strong spirit, charm, delicacy, and wit and confirms her place as a poet of permanent stature."4. An American Triptych
by Wendy Martin. University of North Carolina Press. From the publisher: "Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism challenged as well as liberated Rich."5. Gender Roles, Literary Authority, and Three American Women Writers
by Theresa Freda Nicolay. Lang, Peter Publishing. Theresa Freda Nicolay discusses the works of Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren, Margaret Fuller Ossoli.6. The Work of Self-Representation
by Ivy Schweitzer. University of North Carolina Press. From the publisher: "To glimpse the struggle between gender ideology and experience, Schweitzer provides close readings of the poetry of four New Englanders writing between the Great Migration and the first wave of the Great Awakening: John Fiske, Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, and Roger Williams."7. Sinful Self, Saintly Self
by Jeffrey A. Hammond. University of Georgia Press. From the publisher: "Through a new historical reading of three major Puritan poets--Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet, and Edward Taylor--Jeffrey Hammond reconstructs this aesthetic framework using Puritan theology, artistic and exegetical traditions deriving from the Bible, and Puritan assumptions about the psychology of the saved soul."