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The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672); Together With Her Prose Remains
The Poems of Mrs Anne Bradstreet Together With Her Prose Remains - 1612-1672 Author:Anne Bradstreet General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: The Duodecimos Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can ... more »select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EDITOR'S NOTE. The FIRST EDITION of Mrs. Bradstreet's poems was printed in London in 1650. There had been a press at Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1638, but there is no reason to suppose that this book was offered to it for printing, for the press was constantly occupied with church, state, and educational documents of importance, and had no leisure for work which was not of stern necessity. It would seem that the Rev. John Woodbridge, who had come to New England in 1634, and had married Mrs. Bradstreet's younger sister Mercy, was much impressed by his sister-in-law's "gracious demeanor, eminent parts, pious conversation, and courteous disposition," and, upon his return for a visit to the mother country in 1647, took with him a number of her poems in manuscript, and had them printed in London without the consent of the author. To justify himself in his course, he secured a number of commendatory epistles in verse from friends and ad- c TENTH MUSE 5 Lately fprungup in America. | Severall Poems, compiled I 1 with great variety of V Vit 4 and Learningjfull of delight. J Wherein efpecially is contained a com- £ 3 plcacdifcourfc and defer iption of ' £ fElemen$t The vSw/oTwof tbr fear. Together with an Ex aft Epitomie of the Four Monarchies, The Roman. Alfo a Dialogue between Old England and g 3 Nrw, concerning the lare troubles. J? 2 Wi1hdjyerso1her pleaUnnndfetioui Pcxms.« less