English 530: Anne Bradstreet
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L. Gigliotti 304 Willard Hall 860/832-2759 gigliotti@ccsu.edu |
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English 530: Anne Bradstreet |
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By examining her complete works and the extensive secondary literature about her, the course will examine the development of Anne Bradstreet (1612? -1672) from a “right Du Bartas girle” into the first English language poet to capture most fully in verse the effects of the trans-Atlantic migration and the American wilderness on Puritan life and beliefs. The class also will detail the poet’s wide-ranging critical and popular Nachleben, especially her influence on twentieth-century American poetry.
Biography of Anne Bradstreet; Puritan literary theory
Selections, The Bay Psalm Book (Meserole 353-361; handout)
R. Williams, “The Courteous Pagan shall condemne” (Meserole 177)
J. Saffin, “An Acrostic on Mrs. Elizabeth Hull” (Meserole 195)
T. Tillam, “Uppon the first sight of New England” (Meserole 397-398)
E. Taylor, “Huswifery” (Meserole 142-143)
A. Bradstreet, “Upon a Fit of Sickness, 1632” (Bradstreet 222)
15 Michael Wigglesworth, “Day of Doom” (Meserole 55-117)
“God’s Controversy with New England” (Meserole 42-54)
Bradstreet, “A Dialogue between Old England and New” (Bradstreet 179-188)
Journal #1
22 Bradstreet, Quarternions (I)
“The Foure Elements” (18-32)
“Of the Foure Humours in Man’s Constitution” (33-50)
“The Four Ages of Man” (51-64)
“The Four Seasons of the Yeare” (65-72)
29 Bradstreet, Quarternions (II)
“The Four Monarchies” (73-178)
October
6 Bradstreet, “An Elegie Upon…Sir Philip Sidney” (189-191)
“In Honour of Du Bartas” (192-194)
“To Her Most Honoured Father…” (13-14)
“In Honour of…Queen Elizabeth” (195-198)
“An Epitaph on…Mrs. Dorothy Dudley” (204)
“David’s Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan” (199-200)
“Flesh and Spirit” (215-218)
“The Vanity of All Worldly Things” (219-220)
13 Bradstreet, “The Prologue” (15-17)
Paper I due
20 Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” (221)
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (224)
“In Reference to Her Children” (232)
“Upon My Son Samuel” (258)
“Upon My Daughter Hannah Wiggin” (262)
“To My Dear Children” (240-245)
“For My Dear Son Simon Bradstreet” (271)
Journal #5
27 Presentations – Group A
3 Presentations – Group B
10 Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (225)
“A Letter to My Husband” (226)
“Another”(227)
“Another” (229-230)
“For the Restoration of My Dear Husband” (261)
“”Upon My Dear and Loving Husband” (265-266)
“In My Solitary Hours”(267-268)
“In Thankful Acknowledgement” (269)
“In Thankful Remembrance” (270)
November
17 Joint class with Dr. Susan Gilmore’s Eng 500: The Long Poem
Bradstreet, “Contemplations” (204-214)
John Berryman, “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet” (handout)
Journal #7
24 Bradstreet, “Upon some Distemper of Body”
“For Deliverance from a Fever” (247)
“From another sore Fit” (248)
“Deliverance from a Fit of Fainting” (249)
“Meditations When My Soul Hath Been Refreshed…” (250-257; 259-260)
Journal #8
1 Bradstreet, “Here Follow Several Occasional Meditations” (246)
“Meditations Divine and Moral” (272-291)
Thesis and annotated bibliography due.
8 Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning of Our House” (292-293)
“In Memory of…Anne Bradstreet” (236)
“On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet…” (237)
“As Weary Pilgrim, Now at Rest” (294-295)
15 Paper II due. Roundtable discussion.
Bradstreet, Anne. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Edited by Jeannine Hensley.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1967.
Meserole, Harrison, T., ed. American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. University
Park: Penn State UP, 1985.
a) E-mail journals and/or poetry explication (9 total) 15%
b) Presentation of a scholarly article 10%
c) Paper #1 (5-7 pages) 20%
d) Thesis and annotated bibliography 10%
e) Paper #2 (15-20 pages) 40%
f) Participation and Attendance 5%