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...WORKS OF ANNE BRADSTREET edited by Jeannine Hensley. 320 pages. Harvard...
...America's first poet is to be found among the Puritan settlers. She was Anne Bradstreet, a high-spirited girl from a wealthy family, whose work is being published as part of a Harvard University Press series on American cultural history...
Tenth Muse. Anne Bradstreet was 18 when she came to Boston in 1630, but already a scarred combatant in the battle for salvation. Two years earlier, God had chastised her "carnal heart" with smallpox but, later the same year, relented and presented her with a husband she loved passionately. For several years she was plagued by fear of barrenness, though eventually she bore eight children. Life evolved around them and the two men she adored, her husband Simon, a busy government envoy, and her father Thomas Dudley, who succeeded John Winthrop as Governor of Massachusetts...
Velvet Verse. After three centuries, time has tossed up just such a poet in John Berryman, whose Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, published in 1956, is one of the best long poems in English since Eliot's Four Quartets. He knew Anne's limitations: . . . all this bald abstract didactic rime I read appalled
There is little real poetic content in her work, but enough to inspire Berry-man's vision of sexuality imprisoned by a tyranny of conscience. Enough, too, to make Mistress Bradstreet a valid foot note to the age of Milton and Marvell, the honorable inaugurator of American poetry, and one of the first female voices in literature to speak intimately and directly in its own behalf...