An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne RichAnne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism bo |
Contents
I found a new world | 20 |
The Tenth Muse | 37 |
Be still thou unregenerate part | 49 |
The Rising Self | 58 |
Were earthly comforts permanent | 67 |
Introduction | 79 |
The Soul selects her own Society | 84 |
Your Wayward Scholar | 99 |
Introduction | 167 |
Find Yourself and You Find the World | 173 |
Visionary Anger Cleansing My Sight | 188 |
A Whole New Poetry Beginning Here | 202 |
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far | 217 |
A New Relation to the Universe | 227 |
Notes | 235 |
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