![]() In general, she benefited from the Elizabethan tradition that valued female education. There the young Anne Dudley read Virgil, Plutarch, Livy, Pliny, Suetonius, Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, Seneca, and Thucydides as well as Spenser, Sidney, Milton, Raleigh, Hobbes, Joshua Sylvester's 1605 translation of Guillaume du Bartas's Divine Weeks and Workes, and the Geneva version of the Bible. ![]() ![]() Bradstreet's work has endured, and she is still considered to be one of the most important early American poets.Īlthough Anne Dudley Bradstreet did not attend school, she received an excellent education from her father, who was widely read- Cotton Mather described Thomas Dudley as a "devourer of books"-and from her extensive reading in the well-stocked library of the estate of the Earl of Lincoln, where she lived while her father was steward from 1619 to 1630. Eight years after it appeared it was listed by William London in his Catalogue of the Most Vendible Books in England, and George III is reported to have had the volume in his library. received considerable favorable attention when it was first published in London in 1650. ![]() Her volume of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as an accomplished New World Poet. ![]()
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