آثار آن برادستریت (کتابخانه جان هاروارد)

Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne Bradstreet sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630, shortly after her marriage at sixteen to Simon Bradstreet. For the next forty years she lived in the New England wilderness, raising a family of eight, combating sickness and hardship, and writing the verse that made her, as the poet Adrienne Rich says in her Foreword to this edition, "the first non-didactic American poet, the first to give an embodiment to American nature, the first in whom personal intention appears to precede Puritan dogma as an impulse to verse." All Anne Bradstreet's extant poetry and prose is published here with modernized spelling and punctuation. This volume reproduces the second edition of Several Poems , brought out in Boston in 1678, as well as the contents of a manuscript first printed in 1857. Adrienne Rich's Foreword offers a sensitive and illuminating critique of Anne Bradstreet both as a person and as a writer, and the Introduction, scholarly notes, and appendices by Jeannine Hensley make this an authoritative edition. Adrienne Rich observes, "Intellectual intensity among women gave cause for uneasiness" at this period--a fact borne out by the lines in the Prologue to the early poems: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits." The broad scope of Anne Bradstreet's own learning and reading is most evident in the literary and historical allusions of The Tenth Muse , the first edition of her poems, published in London in 1650. Her later verse and her prose meditations strike a more personal note, however, and reveal both a passionate religious sense and a depth of feeling for her husband, her children, the fears and disappointments she constantly faced, and the consoling power of nature. Imbued with a Puritan striving to turn all events to the glory of God, these writings bear the mark of a woman of strong spirit, charm, delicacy, and wit: in their intimate and meditative quality Anne Bradstreet is established as a poet of sensibility and permanent stature. Frontmatter ANNE BRADSTREET AND HER POETRY, by Adrienne Rich (page ix) ANNE BRADSTREET'S WREATH OF THYME, by Jeannine Hensley (page xxiii) A NOTE ON THE TEXT (page xxxvii) [POEMS PRINTED IN THE FIRST TWO EDITIONS] EPISTLE TO THE READER BY JOHN WOODBRIDGE (page 3) INTRODUCTORY VERSES BY NATHANIEL WARD, JOHN ROGERS, AND OTHERS (page 4) TO HER MOST HONOURED FATHER BY A.B. (page 13) THE PROLOGUE (page 15) THE FOUR ELEMENTS (page 18) OF THE FOUR HUMOURS (page 33) OF THE FOUR AGES (page 51) THE FOUR SEASONS (page 65) THE FOUR MONARCHIES (page 73) A DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW (page 179) AN ELEGY UPON SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (page 189) IN HONOUR OF DU BARTAS (page 192) IN HONOUR OF QUEEN ELIZABETH (page 195) DAVID'S LAMENTATION (page 199) TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS DUDLEY ESQ. (page 201) AN EPITAPH ON MRS. DOROTHY DUDLEY (page 204) CONTEMPLATIONS (page 204) THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT (page 215) THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS (page 219) THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK (page 221) [POEMS INSERTED POSTHUMOUSLY IN THE 1678 EDITION] UPON A FIT OF SICKNESS (page 222) UPON SOME DISTEMPER OF BODY (page 223) BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN (page 224) TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND (page 225) A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND (page 226) ANOTHER (page 227) ANOTHER (page 229) TO HER FATHER WITH SOME VERSES (page 231) IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN (page 232) IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH BRADSTREET (page 235) IN MEMORY OF ANNE BRADSTREET (page 236) ON SIMON BRADSTREET (page 237) IN MEMORY OF MRS. MERCY BRADSTREET (page 238) [THE ANDOVER MANUSCRIPTS, FIRST PRINTED 1867] TO MY DEAR CHILDREN (page 240) MY DEAR CHILDREN (page 240) OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS (page 246) FOR MY DEAR SON SIMON BRADSTREET (page 271) MEDITATIONS DIVINE AND MORAL (page 272) UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE (page 292) AS WEARY PILGRIM (page 294) A Collection Of Poetry And Prose By Early Feminist Author Anne Bradstreet, Written In The Seventeenth Century After Her Arrival In The American Colonies. Edited By Jeannine Hensley ; Foreword By Adrienne Rich. Includes Bibliographical References.