Primary Works

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, 1650; Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, 1678.

1632 "Upon a Fit of Sickness" published 1678; 1642 "To her most Honoured Father Thomas Dudley" published 1650; "The Foure Elements" 1650; "Of the foure Humours in 1650; "Mans constitution" "The Four Ages of Man" 1650; "The four Seasons of the Yeare" published 1650; 1643 "A Dialogue between Old England and New…" published 1650; 1643 - "The Foure Monarchies…" published 1650; 1641 - "To my Dear and loving Husband" published 1678; 1656 "To my Dear Children (prose) published 1867; "What God is like to him I serve" published 1867; 1661 "My thankfull heart with glorying Tongue" published 1867; 1660 - "The Flesh and the Spirit" published 1867; 1664-5 "Contemplations" published 1678-1669 "As weary pilgrim, now at rest" published 1678. Note: Published also implies a work made public or known by relatives or friends.

The works of Anne Bradstreet, in prose and verse. Ed. John Harvard Ellis. NY: P. Smith, 1962. PS711 .A1

The works of Anne Bradstreet. Ed. Jeannine Hensley. Foreword by Adrienne Rich. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1967. PS711 .A1

The complete works of Anne Bradstreet. Eds. McElrath, Jr. and Allan P. Robb. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. PS711 .A1

Early New England meditative poetry: Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor. Ed. Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe. NY: Paulist Press, 1988. PS595 .C47 B73

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Beales, Ross W. Anne Bradstreet and her Children. NY: Psychohistory Press, 1979.

Berryman, John. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Poem with pictures by Ben Shahn. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1956. PS3503.E744 H6

Cowell, Pattie and Ann Stanford, eds. Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1983. PS712 .C7 contains, among others, these essays:

Eberwein, J. "`No Ret'ric We Expect': Argumentation in Bradstreet's `The Prologue.'" 218-25.
Richardson, Jr., R. "The Puritan Poetry of Anne Bradstreet." 101-15.
Stanford, A. "Anne Bradstreet: Dogmatist and Rebel." 76-88.
White, E. "The Tenth Muse - A Tercentenary Appraisal of Anne Bradstreet." 56-75.

Dolle, Raymond F. Anne Bradstreet: A Reference Guide. G.K. Hall & Co. Boston, Mass. 1990.

Martin, Wendy. An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984. PS310 .F45 M3

Piercy, Josephine K. Anne Bradstreet. NY: Twayne P, 1965. PS712 .P5

Rosenmeier, Rosamond. Anne Bradstreet Revisited. Boston: Twayne, 1991. PS712 .R6 1991

Stanford, Ann. Anne Bradstreet, The Worldly Puritan: An Introduction to her Poetry. NY: B. Franklin, 1975. PS712 S8

White, Elizabeth. Anne Bradstreet, "the tenth muse." NY: Oxford UP, 1971. PS712 W54

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Blackstock, Carrie Galloway. " Anne Bradstreet and Performativity: Self-Cultivation, Self-Deployment." Early American Literature 32. 3 (1997): 222-48.

Bloom, Gina. "'Walk in the Darkness': The Practice of Duty in Anne Bradstreet's Marriage Poems." L&B 16 (1996) 113-33

Bush, Sargent, Jr. "American Poetry Begins: The Confident Modesty of The Tenth Muse." Wisconsin Academy Review: A Journal of Wisconsin Culture 38. 1 (Winter 1991-1992): 8-12.

Caldwell, Patricia. "Why Our First Poet Was a Woman: Bradstreet and the Birth Of an American Poetic Voice." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 13 (1998): 1-35.

Craig, Raymond A. "Singing With Grace: Allusive Strategies in Anne Bradstreet's "New Psalms'." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 1(1990): 148-69.

Doriani, Beth M. " 'Then have I…Said with David': Anne Bradstreet's Andover Manuscript Poems and the Influence of the Psalm Tradition." Early American Literature 24:1 (1989): 52-69.

Dorsey, Peter. "Women's Autobiography and the Hermeneutics of Conversion." A-B: Autobiography Studies 8:1 (spring 1993): 72-90.

Eaton, Sara. "Anne Bradstreet's 'Personal' Protestant Poetics." Women's Writing 4 (1997) 57-71.

Eberwein, "Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11:2 (1994): 161-69.

- - -. "'Art, Natures Ape': The Challenge to the American Poet." Poetics in the Poem: Critical Essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry. Ed. Dorothy Z. Baker. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Elrod, Eileen Razarri. "' Mouth Put in the Dust': Personal Authority and Biblical Resonance in Anne Bradstreet's Grief Poems." Early Protestantism and American Culture. Ed. Michael Schuldiner. New York: Mellen, 1995.

Eur, Do seon. "Reading Anne Bradstreet's 'Contemplations' in the Light of the Emblematic Structure." Literary Calvinism and Nineteenth Century American Women. Ed. Michael Schuldiner. New York: Mellen, 1997.

Hammond, Jeffrey A. "The Puritan Elegaic Ritual: From Sinful Silence to Apostolic Voice." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 2 (1991): 77-106.

Harvey, Tamara. "'Now Sisters Impart Your Usefulness and Force': Anne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism in the Tenth Muse." Early American Literature 35 (2000) 5-28.

Hesford, Walter. "The Creative Fall of Bradstreet and Dickinson." Essays In Literature 14:1 (spring 1987): 81-91.

Hughes, Walter. "'Meat Out of the Eater': Panic and Desire in American Puritan Poetry." Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. Eds. Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Kopacz, Paula. " 'To Finish what's Begun': Anne Bradstreet's Last Words." Early American Literature 23:2 (1988): 175-187.

Maragou, Helena. "The Portrait of Alexander the Great in Anne Bradstreet's 'The Third Monarchy'." Early American Literature 23:1 (spring 1988): 70-81.

Margerum, Eileen. "Anne Bradstreet's Public Poetry and the Tradition of Humility." Early American Literature 17:2 (fall 1982): 152-60.

Martin, Wendy. "Anne Bradstreet." Dictionary of Literary Biography. V.24. 1984.

Meany, Birgit. "The Contemplative Art of Anne Bradstreet's 'Contemplations'." Puritanism in America: The Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Mellen, 1993.

Requa, Kenneth A. "Anne Bradstreet's Poetic Voices," Early American Literature, 9 (1974): 3-18

Richardson, Robert. "The Puritan Poetry of Anne Bradstreet," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 9 (1967): 317-331.

Rosenfeld, Alvin H. "Anne Bradstreet's 'Contemplations': Patterns of Form and Meaning," New England Quarterly, 43 (1970): 79-96

Rosenmaier, Rosamond R. "The Wounds upon Bathsheeba: Anne Bradstreet's Prophetic Art." Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry In Theory and Practice. Eds. Peter White and Harrison T. Meserole. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1985.

Salska, Agnieska. "Puritan Poetry: Its Public and Private Strain." Early American Literature 19:2 (Fall 1984): 107-121.

Schilling, Carol. "Corresponding Figures: Embodying Sacred and Secular Commonplaces in Anne Bradstreet's Letters to Simon." Literature And Belief 15 (1995): 139-59.

Schweitzer, Ivy. "Anne Bradstreet Wrestles with the Renaissance." Early American Literature 23:2 (1988): 291-312.

Spencer, Luke. "Mistress Bradstreet and Mr. Berryman: The Ultimate Seduction." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 66:2 (June 1994): 353-66.

Sweet, Timothy. "Gender, Genre, and Subjectivity in Anne Bradstreet's Early Elegies." Early American Literature 23:2 (1988); 152-174.

| Top | Study Questions

1. Discuss the extent to which Bradstreet's poetry reflects Puritan thinking. Analyze in particular the way Bradstreet reflects her own spiritual and metaphysical fears in the process of describing an actual event in Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House.

2. Analyze the contrast between form and feeling in Bradstreet's work. In what ways does she use self-disclosure as a challenge to Puritan theology?

3. What does Anne Bradstreet's poetry reveal about Puritan ideas of the proper role of women? What is her defense of her poetry? Is her assertion that she had a secondary and defective talent genuine, or was it a calculated, rhetorical pose designed to offset criticism? 

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