Anne Bradstreet

Following is Sanctus, with heart wrenching text by Anne Bradstreet.

Elizabeth Donoghue: A Musical Interpretation of Same Sex Marriage

Also, "Mistress Bradstreet" about Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet -- kind of.

Savages

Included are texts by the poet Anne Bradstreet, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman and texts from pre-modern Europe and an ancient Gregorian chant.

Elizabeth Donoghue: A Musical Interpretation of Same Sex Marriage

Following is Sanctus, with heart wrenching text by Anne Bradstreet.

Elizabeth Donoghue: A Musical Interpretation of Same Sex Marriage

I've read the book about Anne Bradstreet a couple of times.

Savages

Included are texts by the poet Anne Bradstreet, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman and texts from pre-modern Europe and an ancient Gregorian chant.

Elizabeth Donoghue: A Musical Interpretation of Same Sex Marriage

Changing tack again, Anne Bradstreet has a bunch of poems meditating on the death of her children, as does Donne or Jonson or somebody.

It Sounded Good at the Time

But colonial women like Anne Bradstreet and Anne Hutchinson exerted considerable social and literary influence in spite of primitive conditions and the dangers they might face for stepping outside of the roles society had assigned them.

History of American Women

This poem by Anne Bradstreet illustrates the depth of the Puritan woman's devotion to her husband:

History of American Women

For a moment, I realized that this year is my trial by fire, but that I will be like Anne Bradstreet and claim the lines as my own: That fearfull sound of fire and fire,/Let no man know is my Desire.

lazarus Diary Entry