Anne Bradstreet Essay Examples

March 20, 1612
Northampton, England

September 16, 1672 (aged 60)
North Andover, Massachusetts

Poet

British

She was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.

The most famous poem is “Contemplations.”