LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Anne Bradstreet was the first
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Female poet
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Female poet in the New World
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Poet
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Anne Bradstreet was a reluctant settler in America, a Puritan who migrated from her beloved England in the 1600s. She became America’s first poet, and a new biography details her life. Scott Simon speaks with poet Charlotte Gordon, author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and second woman (after Anne Bradstreet) to publish a book of poems. Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by slave traders and brought to America in 1761.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England’s first published poet.
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