Poems of Mrs Anne Bradstreet Together with Her Prose Remains
Author: first_name: Anne
last_name: Bradstreet
Language: English
Year: 1897

In the year 1650...there was published, in London, a book of poems written by a gifted young woman of the New England wilderness, Anne Bradstreet by name. This book bore one of those fantastic and long-winded title-pages, at once a table of contents and a printer's puff, that the literary folk of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries greatly delighted in. It reads thus: "The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America; or, Several Poems, compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of deli