The Annals of America
The Annals of America
1.41 Two Poems
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1.41 Two Poems

1650, Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Bradstreet, Illuminated Poetic Voice, Essential, Interconnected.

“Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, If worth in me or ought I do appear, Who can of right better demand the same Than may your worthy self from whom it came? The principal might yield a greater sum, Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb; My stock’s so small I know not how to pay, My bond remains in force unto this day; Yet for part payment take this simple mite, Where nothing’s to be had, kings loose their right. Such is my debt I may not say forgive, But as I can, I’ll pay it while I live; Such is my bond, none can discharge but I, Yet paying is not paid until I die.”

~ Anne Bradstreet; To Her Father with Some Verses,The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America (1650)

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Here is A. Stanford’s piece, ‘Anne Bradstreet: Dogmatist & Rebel.’ It is a Great Supplement that points out the sundry antitheses & conflicts Bradstreet works within her poetry & how she channels them for creative ends.

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The Annals of America
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Synopsis of "The Annals of America"; first Published in 1968 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, & edited by Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler.