I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet’s pen all scorn I should thus wrong For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won’t advance, They’ll say it’s stolen, or else, it was by chance.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Anne Bradstreet (13)
Birth: | 1612 |
Death: | 1672 |
Nationality: | American, British |
Profession: | Poet, Writer |
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Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England. She was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.
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