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...J. A. Leo Lemay Anne Bradstreet: “The Tenth Muse” . By White Elizabeth Wade . New York : Oxford University Press , 1971 . Pp. xvi , 410 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 437 Yet it is with the unforgotten that Mr. Highet is most persuasive...

... Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse. By Elizabeth Wade White. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi, 410. $12.50. Who can resist Anne Bradstreet? In charming verse she complains of the role of seventeenth-century women, worries about her children, loves her husband, describes her religious doubts...

... appreciation of the poet s personality. The trouble is that there are so few materials for a biography and that this is a reasonably full book. A long chapter hypothesizes that a noble rogue, George Sutton-Dudley, was her paternal grandfather. The English background and early education of Bradstreet...

.... Bradstreet s warned in 1880 that it would not be suprising if the centers of cotton manufacture gradually drifted in a southerly direc­ tion. A few years later, the Boston Commercial Bulletin complained that South Carolina and Georgia mills were competing with Mas­ sachusetts factories in foreign as well...

... for agreeing with the judgment. O. Glade Hunsaker writes on Roger Williams and Milton: The Calling of the Puritan Writer, Emily Stipes Watts on The posy unity : Anne Bradstreet s Search for Order, William J. Scheick on The Jawbones Schema of Edward Taylor s Gods Determinations, Michael J. Colarcurcio...

... history. Through a series of ten chapters enclosed by a brief introduction and a coda, he develops compari­ sons -probably dialogues is a more accurate term between Dickin­ son and Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Stowe, Hawthorne, Emerson, certain of her now forgotten literary friends, the New England...

... forms part of Twayne Publishers ambitious Critical Editions Program, which will eventually offer annotated texts of Anne Bradstreet, Washington Irving, W. D. Howells cor­ respondence, and additional volumes of Poe s works, comprising all or almost all of his nonfiction. Presented here in scholarly...

..., president of Harvard, Nathaniel Ward, Robert Child, John Winthrop, Jr., John Eliot, and Anne Bradstreet. He writes sympathetically of each of these persons, as is met, and enables us to see them as real men and women who came naturally by the outlook on life which constituted their puritanism and made them...

... surveys. Perhaps few Edwardseans will agree with the whole of Colacurcio s piece, but it is a stimulating essay arguing that what makes Edwards everywhere Edwards is some absolutely fundamental bias of imagination in favor of idealism (p. 98). The Bradstreet study offers a well-written and plausible...

.... $40.00. This collection of Poe s longer fictional narratives forms part of Twayne Publishers ambitious Critical Editions Program, which will eventually offer annotated texts of Anne Bradstreet, Washington Irving, W. D. Howells cor­ respondence, and additional volumes of Poe s works, comprising all...

... figures supplied by Bradstreet s Agency, which has been regularly recording wholesale prices for comparative purposes since 1892. It is computed by this agency that in the last thirteen years there has been an advance in the wholesale prices of commodities of about fortynine per cent. This would indicate...

... ders about their choice of Bradstreet rather than Mistress Bradstreet : does a blunt surname really advance the status of female writers? 8 Since 1 believe that Woolf would concur with the current feminist critical deci­ sion to cite both men and women similarly (and as 1 have never referred...

.... Together with Cotton s statement, it suggests that in some instances at least religious sentiments might be simply a substitute for the love of a husband or wife. Some lines of Anne Bradstreet, written during an absence of her husband, have the same implication. 112 The South Atlantic Quarterly Tho...

... of the same mind in their desire for war, except Mr. Bradstreet, one of the Massachusetts commissioners. But their proceedings were interrupted by a declaration sent in by the general court of the Massachusetts that no determination of the commissioners, though they should all agree, should bind...

... of those poems a selection of the language really spoken by men. The child is rarely a child. More often he is an infant cherub, or sweet babe, or, as in Anne Bradstreet s poem, a bloody Cain. One child who died before it was a month old was called a little hasty sojourner. Doubtless...

... is attempting a vast flank movement by way of Asia. Detente in Europe only meant added vigilance for the West in Asia.28 26. Bradstreet's, 53:2474 (28 Nov. 1925), 780. 27. Henry M. Robinson, The European Situaton in 1926, The Bankers Magazine, 113:6 (June 1926), 840; The Locarno Pact, ibid., 111:6 (Dec...

... sense. The conditions of economic life simply will not allow business to become a stronghold of conservatism. The monthly reports of Dun and Bradstreet of new enterprises started and of bankruptcies filed are perhaps the best comment upon the fluid con­ ditions under which the business affairs...

... of their estates. The largest library noted was that of Dr. Semuel Kollock, of Savannah, Georgia, who left a library of over one thousand volumes, half on medicine. Dr. William D. Gourdin s estate inventoried forty-nine medical books, and Drs. Richard Gegan and Isaac L. Bradstreet, of Concordia Parish, Lou­ isiana...

... of Emily Dickinson and her New England ancestor, Anne Bradstreet: A loaf may be enough To keep you from the clod; You need a ghostlier stuff To company with God. The crops grow in a field, Beneath the ripening sun; And of the flesh one yield, And of the spirit one. The far things get between, When you...