To My Husband and Other Poems

by Robert Hutchinson (Editor), Anne Bradstreet

Overview

The daughter of one colonial governor and the wife of another, Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612–72) was also a skilled and accomplished writer, whose collection of poetry, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was the first volume of original verse written in the colonies. In addition to being America's first poet, she was also, in great likelihood, the first professional woman poet in the English language.
This collection of poetry, selected from a number of her works, discloses the thoughts of a remarkably sensitive and well-educated woman. Exhibiting great range and beauty, the poems encompass everything from lyric verses addressed to her husband and children and a formal elegy in honor of Queen Elizabeth I to loving epitaphs honoring her deceased mother, father, and grandchildren.
Grouped according to category (love, home life, religious meditations, dialogues, and lamentations), the poems not only exhibit Anne Bradstreet’s wide learning but also reveal the influence of Montaigne, Homer, Raleigh, Sidney, Spenser, and other poets. Sure to be welcomed by students and teachers, this collection is also important for the light it sheds on the cares, concerns, and roles of colonial women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486414089
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	11/24/2011
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions Series
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

Table of Contents

CONTENTS 
The Author to her Book   
Love Poems 
To my Dear and loving Husband "As loving Hind" "Phrebus ·make haste"  
A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment Before the Birth of one of her Children  
II Domestic Poems 
In reference to her Childrenune, 1656 Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632 . .Etatis sure,  To her Father with some verses   
To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; Who deceased, July 31. 1655. and of his Age, 77 An Epitaph On my dear and ever honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, who deceased Decemb. 27. 1645. and of her age, 61 Upon the burning of our house, July loth, 1666 Upon some distemper of body In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased August, 1665. being a year and a half old In memory of my dear grand-child Anne Brad-street. Who deceased June 20. 1669. being three years and seven Moneths old  
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On my dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet, Who dyed on 16. Novemb. 1669. being but a moneth,
and one day old
To the memory of my dear Daughter in Law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, who deceased Sept. 6. 1669. in the !lB. year of her Age 17
III I R.eligious Meditations
To my Dear Children  "By night when others soundly slept"  For Deliverance from a feaver  From another sore Fitt  Deliverance from a fitt of Fainting  "What God is like to him I serve"  "My soul, rejoice thou in thy God"  "As spring the winter doth succeed"  Upon my Son Samuel his goeing for England, Novem. 6, 1657  "My thankfull heart with glorying Tongue" For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague, June, 1661  Upon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recovery from a dangerous fever On my Sons Return out of England, July 17, 1661  Upon my dear and loving husband his goeing into England, Jan. 16, 1661  In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence In thankfull acknowledgment for the letters I received from my husband out of England  In thankfull Remembrance for my dear husbands safe Arrivall Sept. 3, 1662  "As weary pilgrim, now at rest"
POEMS OF ANNE BRADSTREET
IV  Contemplations   
V  Dialogues and Lamentations 
The Flesh and the Spirit The Vanity of all worldly things Davids Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan   
A Dialogue between Old England and New; concerning their present Troubles, Anno, 1642   
VI Formal Elegies 
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of happy memory An Elegie upon that Honourable and renowned Knight Sir Philip Sidney, who was untimely slain at the Siege of Zutphen, Anno, 1586 To her most Honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; these humbly presented The Prologue [to The Tenth Muse]