安妮 布萊德斯特裏特，清教徒詩人，1630年從英國來到新大陸馬薩諸塞灣殖民地，以《第十個繆斯在美國出現》聞名。

人物簡介

生平：

安妮1612年出生於英格蘭北安普頓，是林肯伯爵的管傢托馬斯·達德利和多蘿西·約剋的女兒。由於她的家庭地位，她成長在有文化的環境中，是一個受過良好教育的女性。在那個時代，她學習了歷史，多國語言和文學。1628年十六歲時，她嫁給了西蒙·布拉德斯特裏特。安妮的父親和丈夫後來都擔任了馬薩諸塞灣殖民地的總督。

1630年，安妮和西蒙，以及安妮的父母，作為溫斯洛普清教徒移民艦隊的一員，在阿貝拉號上移民到美國。

1630年6月14日，作為清教徒嚮新英格蘭(1620-1640年)遷徙的一部分，她和西蒙、父母以及其他航海者在現在的拓荒村(馬薩諸塞州的塞勒姆)首次感受到了美國的土地。由於州長約翰恩迪科特(John Endecott)和村裏其他居民的疾病和饑餓，他們的逗留時間非常短暫。大多數人立即沿着海岸嚮南遷移到馬薩諸塞州的查理斯敦，在那裏停留了一段時間，然後沿着查爾斯河嚮南遷移，在馬薩諸塞州的波士頓發現了“山上的城市”。布拉德斯特裏特一傢很快又搬到了現在的馬薩諸塞州的劍橋。

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.