Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet ( * um 1612 in Northampton, England; † September 16, 1672 in Andover, Massachusetts ) was the first English poet whose works were published in the colonies of the New World.

Life and work

She came in 1630 with the fleet John Winthrop to New England. Her father was Thomas Dudley, later repeated governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. At age 16 she married Simon Bradstreet, who after her death also governor ( 1679-1686 and 1689-1692 ) of the colony was. At first they lived in Ipswich (Massachusetts), later in Andover. Anne Bradstreet was the mother of eight children.

Bradstreet wrote mainly religious poetry that reflect the Puritan beliefs of their time, but also poems about the joys of married life and the mother's existence. Her best-known poem is probably the Ode To My Dear and Loving Husband. In addition, they wrote, a number of quaternion poems. , The four seasons, the four elements, and so on have on the subject As role models for their literary work of the French poet Guillaume Du Bartas and the English writer Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney could be mentioned.

1650 some of her poems were published under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Jump Up in America apparently without their consent in London. Other poems were published posthumously in 1678 under the title Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, the rest only in 1867.

Your final resting place she found on the Old Burying Point in Salem ( Massachusetts).