Essay Upon The Burning Of Our House By Anne Bradstreet

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“Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” by Anne Bradstreet and “To the University of Cambridge, in New England” by Phillis Wheatley The 17th century was a bustling time for poetry and the era of Romanticism. Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley were the first women poets to publish their poetry; “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” and “To the University of Cambridge, in New England”. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem; “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”, Anne writes about her experience in the middle of night, when she is awaken by a fire in her house. She enlightens the fact that the belongings that were lost in the fire were meant to be

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