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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book," 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 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535835145
    A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"

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      A Study Guide for Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book" - Gale

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      The Author to Her Book

      Anne Bradstreet

      1678

      Introduction

      Anne Bradstreet, a seventeenth-century American poet who was among the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote The Author to Her Book, a brief poem in which she addresses her own book of poetry as if it were her child. While still in her teens, Bradstreet left her home in England to live in the New World with her husband, Simon Bradstreet, an official with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For the next four decades, she made time to write a small but powerful collection of historical poems, intimate lyric poems about her daily family life and its joys and tragedies, and meditative poems about her religious faith. Her earliest poems existed only in manuscript form until 1650, when her brother-in-law John Woolbridge, a minister in Andover, Massachusetts, took them with him to London. There he had fifteen of them printed under the title The Tenth Muse—the first book of poetry written in the New World. As an indication of how the norms of entitling books have changed since the seventeenth century, it might be noted that the full title of the book was The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, or Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, Wherein especially is Contained a Complete Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year, together with an exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies, viz., The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman, Also a Dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious Poems, By a Gentlewoman in those parts.

      It remains an open question whether the collection was published with or without Bradstreet's knowledge. The assumption is that Woolbridge acted without her authorization. However, she may have known of Woolbridge's

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