Anne Bradstreet, born Anne Dudley in Northamptonshire, England, was one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. She immigrated to America in 1630. Many of her poems were first published in the collection The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650. This was her only collection to be published in her lifetime. After Bradstreet’s death, her work was updated and expanded as Several Poems Compiled with Great Wit and Learning in 1678. Her most known work, Contemplations, was published in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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