Over the past four centuries, Anne Bradstreet has received a number of accolades from literary scholars and critics. She has been called one of the greatest Puritan/New World poets, the first female poet in America, and some even consider her the best female poet of all time. Feminist literary critics, American historians, and scholars of English literature regularly examine, anthologize, and discuss her work. She is renowned for both her erudite public poems and her compellingly personal and honest private poems. Her musings on religion, motherhood, marriage, and the vicissitudes of life are both timeless and memorable.
Anne Dudley Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northampton, England....
