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Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672 Anne Bradstreet was the first true poet, as well as the first female poet, of English-speaking North America. She was not a revolutionary figure like Anne Hutchinson in Massachusetts. Her affirmation of a usual female role is evident in “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” She reached her peek in English poetry in the late sixteenth century and her part of the seventeenth. Under the leadership of John Wintrop she sailed from …

…original poetry written in the American Colonies. It was published in London in 1650. Many of the poems in “The Tenth Muse” deals with science and with Bradstreet’s moral and religious ideas. However, her best poems describe home life in colonial New England. They include “Contemplations” and “On the Burning of Her House.” Bradstreet also wrote sensitivity poetry to her husband and children, including “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Meditations Divine and Moral.”