Author: Anne Bradstreet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Author: Anne Bradstreet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Mistress Bradstreet
Author: Charlotte Gordon
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316028681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, among others, and through John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet's family or their close associates -- characters who appear in these pages.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316028681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, among others, and through John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet's family or their close associates -- characters who appear in these pages.
Poems and Meditations
Author: Anne Bradstreet
Publisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts
ISBN: 9780866986212
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"The extant literary productions of Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672), an English language poet living in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Encompasses poetry on science, ancient history, English Civil Wars, religious subjects, and domestic life; and short prose meditations on religious life"--
Publisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts
ISBN: 9780866986212
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"The extant literary productions of Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672), an English language poet living in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Encompasses poetry on science, ancient history, English Civil Wars, religious subjects, and domestic life; and short prose meditations on religious life"--
The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
Author: Anne Bradstreet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Great Poems by American Women
Author: Susan L. Rattiner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112659
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Superb, inexpensive anthology spans four centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112659
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Superb, inexpensive anthology spans four centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.
A Jury of Her Peers
Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400034426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women’s contributions into our nation’s literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400034426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women’s contributions into our nation’s literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place.
Anne Bradstreet
Author: Heidi L. Nichols
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9780875526102
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1669) was America's first published poet. She lived in England and the Colonies during a remarkable historic period marked by civil and religious strife and political upheaval. Bradstreet's life and work challenge stereotypes of Puritans, revealing her vibrant intellectualism and her outspoken love for her husband. -- From publisher's description.
Publisher: P & R Publishing
ISBN: 9780875526102
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1669) was America's first published poet. She lived in England and the Colonies during a remarkable historic period marked by civil and religious strife and political upheaval. Bradstreet's life and work challenge stereotypes of Puritans, revealing her vibrant intellectualism and her outspoken love for her husband. -- From publisher's description.
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Author: John Berryman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women poets
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, long poem by John Berryman, written in 1948–53 and published in 1956. Noted for its intensity, it is a tribute to colonial poet Anne Bradstreet that also reveals much about the author. The poem examines the tension between Bradstreet’s personal life and her artistic life, concluding in a spirit of fatalism. It shows throughout a loving and intimate grasp of the details of American history. The work primarily examines creative repression, religious apostasy, and the temptation to adultery.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women poets
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, long poem by John Berryman, written in 1948–53 and published in 1956. Noted for its intensity, it is a tribute to colonial poet Anne Bradstreet that also reveals much about the author. The poem examines the tension between Bradstreet’s personal life and her artistic life, concluding in a spirit of fatalism. It shows throughout a loving and intimate grasp of the details of American history. The work primarily examines creative repression, religious apostasy, and the temptation to adultery.
Accidental Grace: Selected Poems & Prose
Author: Ann Slayton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928755548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
"In poetry and prose, Ann Slayton takes on wide-ranging themes in an array of voices. Among them, the historical Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), "We Have from the First Been Singers"; Hester Prynne's young daughter, "The Spell"; Henry Moore's great sculpture itself, "Reclining Figure at Lincoln Center" - The tone of these poems is characterized by a metaphorical richness and cadenced rhythms as they move between deep meditation and comic satire in works such as "Nothing Is Happening Again," "Partly Mozart, Mostly Turkey Club," and "Everyone Was a Real One but Gertrude.""--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781928755548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
"In poetry and prose, Ann Slayton takes on wide-ranging themes in an array of voices. Among them, the historical Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), "We Have from the First Been Singers"; Hester Prynne's young daughter, "The Spell"; Henry Moore's great sculpture itself, "Reclining Figure at Lincoln Center" - The tone of these poems is characterized by a metaphorical richness and cadenced rhythms as they move between deep meditation and comic satire in works such as "Nothing Is Happening Again," "Partly Mozart, Mostly Turkey Club," and "Everyone Was a Real One but Gertrude.""--
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Author: John Berryman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879572
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This volume represents the first appearance in paperback of one of America's most outstanding poets, John Berryman. It contains, besides the long title poem, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, the major portion of Short Poems; a selection from The Dispossessed, which drew on two earlier collections; some poems from His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt; and one poem from Sonnets. "It seems to me the most distinguished long poem by an American since The Waste Land." - Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879572
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This volume represents the first appearance in paperback of one of America's most outstanding poets, John Berryman. It contains, besides the long title poem, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, the major portion of Short Poems; a selection from The Dispossessed, which drew on two earlier collections; some poems from His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt; and one poem from Sonnets. "It seems to me the most distinguished long poem by an American since The Waste Land." - Edmund Wilson