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She did not attend school but was well and widely educated at home. Aetatis suae, Though this second mode of production was more conventionally approved than the first, Bradstreet linked the two. Those fears were eased by pregnancy and promptly replaced by another, the fear of dying in childbirth. The years were filled with public event.
Bradstreet was among the founders of Newtowne later Cambridge in , lived at Ipswich — , and was among the settlers of North Andover, where she lived from until her death. Her husband held a series of public offices as judge, agent, and commissioner during her life and would later become governor, yet hers were not occasional or public poems. These erudite poems ranged over science, religion, and history, yet they were dedicated to her father in thanks for his part in the education here displayed, and they were focused on what such knowledge might teach a soul journeying through time on the way to eternity.
However conventional such disclaimers of authorship might have been in her time, there is no evidence that Bradstreet had a chance to edit the manuscript before publication, and it is not likely that she would have chosen the title, The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America.
She wrote about herself and about the life of her fellow colonists in Massachusetts. Although she can hardly be called a confessional poet, it is significant that in the s, three centuries after the publication of The Tenth Muse , leading American confessional poet John Berryman wrote a long and sincere Homage to Mistress Bradstreet.
Her name remains more obscure than it deserves to be, although in the last century her reputation has recovered a little. Politics, not poetry, has dominated the lives of her more famous descendants. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. Bradstreet's poetics belong to the Elizabethan literary tradition that includes Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney ; she was also strongly influenced by the sixteenth century French poet Guillaume du Bartas.
Her early work, which is imitative and conventional in both form and content, is largely unremarkable, and her work was long considered primarily of historical interest. She has, however, won critical acceptance in the twentieth century for her later poetry, which is less derivative and often deeply personal. In the poet John Berryman paid tribute to her in Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, a long poem that incorporates many phrases from her writings.
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