ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

PURITAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published. Author of “The Author to Her Book.”
A
Anne Bradstreet
B
Edward Taylor
C
Jonathan Edwards
D
Arthur Miller
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anne Bradstreet, New England’s first published poet. Anne was the mother of eight children and wife of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne’s collection of poetry was titled The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) was the first writer to be published in England’s North American colonies.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anne Bradstreet was the first writer in England’s North America Colonies to be published. Her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was popular both in England and America in 1650. Anne Bradstreet is the exemplar of the feminine poet of the New World.

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