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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666"
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666"
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666," 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 Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535841993
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666"

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      A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th,1666" - Gale

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      Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666

      Anne Bradstreet

      1678

      Introduction

      Anne Bradstreet, a seventeenth-century New England colonial woman, achieved fame when a family member had her privately circulated poems published in England. The collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was published in 1650 and won Bradstreet so much critical and popular acclaim that her Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, published in 1678, was warmly received as well. This later collection, which was published after the poet's death, includes poems that are more personal in nature than those that appeared in the 1650 volume. Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 is a poem in this later, more personal style. It is elegiac in tone (an elegy is a poem of mourning), in that its focus is on the sense of loss the poet experiences following the destruction of her home. In the poem, Bradstreet strives to uphold a Puritan response to the tragedy, to view it as God's will, and as a moral lesson. This Puritan element is a major theme of the poem. At the same time, Bradstreet struggles with powerful emotions, including deep sorrow and intense feelings of loss. The conflict between Bradstreet's instinctive emotions and her intellectual, religious response creates a palpable tension in the poem.

      Bradstreet's Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 was originally published in Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight in 1678. It is available in The Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Jeannine Hensley, and published in 1967 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University

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