Anne Bradstreet

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Anne Bradstreet


Born
in Northampton, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1612

Died
September 12, 1672


An English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial America. Her work was very influential to Puritans in her time.

Average rating: 3.74 · 1,567 ratings · 134 reviews · 66 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Works of Anne Bradstreet

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3.66 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 1967 — 13 editions
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To My Husband and Other Poems

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3.68 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1672 — 6 editions
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To My Dear and Loving Husband

3.66 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2012
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Poems of Anne Bradstreet

3.77 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions
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Upon the Burning of Our House

3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings2 editions
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The Author to her Book

3.65 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1650
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The Prologue

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The Tenth Muse, Lately Spru...

3.87 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1650 — 5 editions
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Anne Bradstreet - The Compl...

4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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The poems of Mrs. Anne Brad...

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“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
Anne Bradstreet

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
Anne Bradstreet

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

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