Works of Anne Bradstreet

Informationen zum Autor Jeannine Hensley is former Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. Adrienne Rich is one of America’s most distinguished poets. Her work has been translated into many languages and she has received numerous awards, including the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Klappentext Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work. Hensley's introduction sketches the poet's life, and Adrienne Rich's foreword offers a sensitive critique of Bradstreet as a person and as a writer. The John Harvard Library edition includes a chronology of Bradstreet's life and an updated bibliography. Zusammenfassung Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose includes an introduction that sketches the poet's life.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Bradstreet, Bradstreet Anne
• Assisted by: Jeannine Hensley (Editor), Hensley Jeannine (Editor), Rich Adrienne (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780674050273
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05027-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: John Harvard Library; John Harvard Library (Paperbac; The John Harvard Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Poetry, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), POETRY / American / General, Literature & literary studies, Poetry by individual poets, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography and non-fiction prose, Feminism and feminist theory