安妮 布莱德斯特里特,清教徒诗人,1630年从英国来到新大陆马萨诸塞湾殖民地,以《第十个缪斯在美国出现》闻名。
人物简介
生平:
安妮1612年出生于英格兰北安普顿,是林肯伯爵的管家托马斯·达德利和多萝西·约克的女儿。由于她的家庭地位,她成长在有文化的环境中,是一个受过良好教育的女性。在那个时代,她学习了历史,多国语言和文学。1628年十六岁时,她嫁给了西蒙·布拉德斯特里特。安妮的父亲和丈夫后来都担任了马萨诸塞湾殖民地的总督。
1630年,安妮和西蒙,以及安妮的父母,作为温斯洛普清教徒移民舰队的一员,在阿贝拉号上移民到美国。
1630年6月14日,作为清教徒向新英格兰(1620-1640年)迁徙的一部分,她和西蒙、父母以及其他航海者在现在的拓荒村(马萨诸塞州的塞勒姆)首次感受到了美国的土地。由于州长约翰恩迪科特(John Endecott)和村里其他居民的疾病和饥饿,他们的逗留时间非常短暂。大多数人立即沿着海岸向南迁移到马萨诸塞州的查理斯敦,在那里停留了一段时间,然后沿着查尔斯河向南迁移,在马萨诸塞州的波士顿发现了“山上的城市”。布拉德斯特里特一家很快又搬到了现在的马萨诸塞州的剑桥。
Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 20, 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. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.
Born to a wealthy Puritan family in Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well-read scholar especially affected by the works of Du Bartas. She was married at sixteen, and her parents and young family migrated at the time of the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. A mother of eight children and the wife and daughter of public officials in New England, Bradstreet wrote poetry in addition to her other duties. Her early works read in the style of Du Bartas, but her later writings develop into her unique style of poetry which centers on her role as a mother, her struggles with the sufferings of life, and her Puritan faith. Her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was widely read in America and England.
Background
In a portrait that was painted by her later poems, Bradstreet is described as 'an educated English woman, a kind, loving wife, devoted mother, Empress Consort of Massachusetts, a questing Puritan and a sensitive poet.'
Bradstreet's first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.