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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "In Reference to Her Children"
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "In Reference to Her Children"
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "In Reference to Her Children"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "In Reference to Her Children"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "In Reference to Her Children", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781535845816
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "In Reference to Her Children"

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      In Reference to Her Children

      Anne Bradstreet

      1678

      Introduction

      Anne Bradstreet, a seventeenth-century American poet who was among the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, is the author of In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1656 a poem that develops an extended conceit in which she envisions her eight children as birds she has lovingly hatched and cared for. While she was still in her teens, Bradstreet emigrated from her home in England with her husband, Simon Bradstreet, an official with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next four decades, she wrote a small but enduring collection of intimate lyric poems about the joys and tragedies of her family life, as well as historical poems and contemplative poems about her religious faith. Her earliest poems existed only in manuscript form until 1650. That year, her brother-in-law, John Woolbridge, a minister in Andover, Massachusetts, took them with him to London, most likely without Bradstreet's approval. There he had fifteen of them printed under the title The Tenth Muse. It was the first published book of poetry written in the New World, one penned By a Gentlewoman in those parts, as the title page reads.

      By calling the book The Tenth Muse—a title Woolbridge provided, not Bradstreet—he made the publication of the poetry more acceptable, for readers at the time tended to see women more as sources of inspiration, as Muses, than as authors. (The nine Muses in Greek mythology were personifications of inspiration for music, dance, history, tragedy, and other forms of art.) In the years after 1650, Bradstreet continued to write, and ultimately, after her death, a 1678 edition of her poems was published in Boston as Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning. This collection was, in essence, a second edition of The Tenth Muse, but it included

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