Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612 in Northampton, England, into a family unusually well positioned to cultivate both religious seriousness and intellectual ambition. Her precise birth date is uncertain, though she was baptized on March 20, 1612. She entered the world during the reign of James I, in an England defined by political conflict, religious controversy, expanding trade, and the vigorous literary a…
“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
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American Poets, Colonial American Poets, Devotional Poets, Restoration Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow
Giles Fletcher the Younger, born about 1586 and dead by November 1623, occupies a distinctive, if sometimes underappreciated, place in English Renaissance poetry. He was a poet of the generation after Edmund Spenser and before John Milton: too late to belong wholly to the Elizabethan flowering, too early to participate in the Civil War’s political and religious literary struggles, yet deeply connected to both periods…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Joy
