The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 17th Century: Topic 4: Texts and Contexts

Anne Bradstreet, "Conversation between Old England and New England, about their current problems, Anno 1642"

For women in the early 17th century, seeing her published work is amazing achievement under all circumstances. But for women living in a new world it is almost impossible to achieve literary success of this age. The daily life of settlement lands in the colonial era is a constant battle, there are few books, knowledgeable women are suspected and sometimes criticized as crazy. Nevertheless, the first poet of all qualities emerged from American colonies was a woman, Ann Bradstreet.

In 1630, 18 year old Ann Brad Street left Britain to join Massachusetts' new Puritan colony with her family. When she later recalled the letters to the children, "I found a new way of doing things and new ways of doing things, my heart is rising there. After leaving the way I will accept it I joined the church in Boston. "In the next 42 years, she lived, raised her family, and wrote in Massachusetts. I did not return to where she came from. In 1650, some of her family succeeded in publishing her poetry in the UK without her knowing, where they appeared in the 10th museum and recently appeared in America.

In her poem, Brad Streit tried hardly to tell British readers the material reality of American living (for example, she did not mention American Indians). Instead, she represents "New England" as a reformed pious society, and there are many things to learn in England. In "Dialogue between the old England and New England, their current worries, Anno 1642", this girl's country did not despise some of the serious facts of "Old England" about spiritual blindness and corruption . Civil war cliff. . "New England" secretly answered her mother 's suffering, if any. But Brad Street's work seems to be very popular in British Commonwealth. Many British Puritans must welcome the prospect that after their American colonial fashion, their troubled and long-term splitties can certainly be "new" .

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