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Edward Taylor (c. 1642 to 1729) emigrated to America in 1662 in defiance of the restoration of the English monarchy. A Harvard-educated minister, Taylor did not write his poems for publication but as a private act to prepare for each holy communion. His poems were not discovered until the early 20th century; they were published in 1937.
Anne was born in Northampton, England in 1612, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. [6]Due to her family's position, she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages, and literature.
In addition to the preparation poetry seen by Edward Taylor, the Puritan woman Anne Bradstreet wrote dense poetry of her own. She spoke in a deeply personal manner distant from the general understanding of the role of Puritan women.
Anne Bradstreet; William Bridge; John Brinsley the elder; Thomas Brooks (Puritan) Hugh Broughton; ... Edward Taylor; Thomas Taylor (priest, 1576–1633) James Temple;
Anne Bradstreet was the first female to have her works published in the British North American colonies. Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and eventually became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was a very religious man and was considered an independent Puritan.
Soon Puritan ministers like Edward Taylor began to write meditations in verse, based on lines from the Bible and on sense perceptions, both allegorical of the greater glory of God. Anne Bradstreet provided the first published meditations purely based on the senses, celebrating nature's beauties as the creation of God.
Title page of second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678. As England's contact with the Americas increased after the 1490s, English explorers sometimes included verse with their descriptions of the New World up through 1650, the year of Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse", which was written in America (most likely in Ipswich, Massachusetts or North Andover, Massachusetts) and ...
Next, she married Dudley Bradstreet, son of Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley Bradstreet. They had the following children: [1] Margaret, married Job Tyler, son of Moses Tyler. Dudley, married Mary Wainwright. Anne, died in infancy. Bradstreet is an ancestor of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. [3]