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AudioThe Poems of Mrs Anne Bradstreet Together with Her Prose Remains
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LibriVox recording of The Poems of Mrs Anne Bradstreet Together with Her Prose Remains by Anne Bradstreet. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In the year 1650...there was published, in London, a book of poems written by a gifted young woman of the New England wilderness, Anne Bradstreet by name. This book bore one of those fantastic and long-winded title-pages, at once a table of contents and a printer's puff, that the literary folk of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries greatly delighted in. It reads thus: "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." She was born in England, in 1612. In the year 1628, when she had reached the age of sixteen, she married the man in whose loving and grave companionship…
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Anne Bradstreet
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librivox; audiobooks;poetry; American poetry; puritan
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