1.3Anne Bradstreet: Verse upon the Burning of Our House
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Anne Bradstreet—the first important poet in the American colonies. Her work The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America(1650) is considered as the first book of original poetry written in colonial America.
She Published in England in 1650 as her first book.
Her finest poems are those closest to her personal experience as a Puritan wife and mother living in the edge of the wildness.
She found similarities between the domestic details of daily life and the spiritual details of her religious life.
In conclusion, Anne Bradstreet was not an innovative poet, but her directness and her sincerity are moving.

