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From America's first poet - a splendid selection of poems encompassing everything from lyric verses addressed to her husband and children to somber epitaphs on the deaths of her mother, father, and grandchildren. Poems grouped according to category (love, home life, religious meditations, dialogues, and lamentations). Of great literary value, these works also shed light on the cares, concerns and roles of colonial women.
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This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and others.
Anne Bradstreet
Phillis Wheatley
William Cullen Bryant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allan Poe
Abraham Lincoln
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Herman Melville
Walt...
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The inspiring story of a Puritan woman whose passion for writing poetry broke barriers.
Late at night, with her children tucked into bed and her husband away on business, Anne Dudley Bradstreet composed poems by candlelight. She let her thoughts from the day tumble out, memorizing each poem line by line before daring to shape the words onto scraps of scarce parchment. Puritan women in the 1600s weren't allowed to be writers. But when the world...
5) Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley: The Lives and Legacies of Colonial America's Most Prominent
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Anne Bradstreet was born into an unusual family that, in the early years of the 17th century, believed in educating daughters as well as sons. She then moved to the American wilderness as a young bride and proceeded to produce children and poetry at nearly equal speed in the years that followed. Historian Theodore Stanton observed, The most of her poems were produced between 1630 and 1642, that is, before she was thirty years old; and during these...
6) In Her Eyes : The Story of Anne Bradstreet and Puritanism Early American Women Poets Grade 3 Child
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Who was Anne Bradstreet and what did she do to deserve a spot in history books? Reading about Anne's life will also reveal truths about Puritanism. With the information, you can easily understand the culture prevalent in England's North American colonies. Read about the life and works of Anne Bradstreet. Discuss Puritanism, too.
8) The Punisher
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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[2004]
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The Punisher walks through the same world we all know, a world darkened by war, by crime, by cruelty, and by injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees all around him. He only has his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his ironclad determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains, including those who killed his family.
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