Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

This paper presents a scholarly enquiry of the verse of Anne Bradstreet (16121672). She was an English born bard of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Bradstreet was an aristocrat by birth. She was the feminine progeny of one manager of the colony and the wife of another. In general, Bradstreet's verse varies from scenes of house fondness and accustomed confessions of piety. One strange ascribe of Bradstreet's verse is that it rarely shows sensitivity to attractiveness not usually found out in the Puritan theological approach (Balkun 2002).

Phillis ...