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Bradstreet was the first poet in America to publish a volume of poetry. p in America was published in England in 1650. Bradstreet had lived in England until 1630, when at the age of 18 she arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she spen ....

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... also question the harsh Puritan God. Further, Bradstreet's work records early stirrings of female resistance to a social and religious system in which women are subservient to men. In "The Prologue" (1650), Bradstreet writes, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits, / [than] A poet's pen.…" Bradstreet's instincts were to love this world more than the promised next world of Puritan theology, and her struggle to overcome her love for the world of nature energizes her poetry. Taylor, a poet of great technical skill, wrote powerful meditative poems in which he tested himself morally and sought to i ...