On Reading Anne Bradstreet

Does her poetry reveal reluctant Christianity or passionate faith?

Image by the author — page 109 of Anthology of American Literature Volume I: Colonial Through Romantic

Anne Bradstreet was born and raised in England. She was well-educated and at age 16, she married a Cambridge graduate. Two years later Anne and her husband, along with Anne’s family, left England to start a new life in the new world. They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where her father was governor…