num_pages: 286
description: From the "Like many writers, Anne Bradstreet pictured her ideal audience. Her imagination sketched no coterie of flatterers, but rather a modest group of family and friends, as if she preferred keeping her poems near home...But even if we discount part of this modesty as convention, Bradstreet approached a larger (and less familiar) audience cautiously, avoiding risks rather than seeking glory. Her timidity was misguided...."
language: English
title: Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet
titlecomplete: Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet (Critical Essays on American Literature)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: G K Hall