>Huh? IS there a standard edition? Other than the Ann Arbor Sucks
>modernised with the intro by Adriennne Rich?
>
>Either you're retro on this or (high probability) I missed something.
The complete works of Anne Bradstreet / edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.
and Allan P. Robb.
Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981.
>My memory is that the interest in Bradstreet predates feminism (The Tenth
>Muse was reprinted in Boston in1758, and editions of her work were
>published in the US in 1867, 1997, 1932 and 1933--I'm looking at the 1941
>Cambridge Bibliography.
> >>
>
>K, I'm batting off the top of my head here, but wasn't 10thMuse the first
>(London) edition? The one she got fronted by her brother-in-law? Mostly
>Eliza stuff. The second (published) edition was the one that starts with
>"The Author to her Book". 'Burning of the House' comes in from the MS.
>Nah?
I listed post-17th century editions--I was interested in the degree to
which there was any attention.
><<
>I don't remember the early history of her revival in the last
>century, but it's clearly happened by the time of Berryman's "Homage..."
>in the 1950s.
> >>
>
>So quote me chapter-and-verse BEFORE Berryman writes "Homage to Mistress
>Bradstreet" -- where it starts, for better or worse, for all of me.
>
As I said, don't remember. And don't have the books, neither.
><<
>The impulse was more patriotic than feminist--part of the
>long American search for something passing for roots in this place. And by
>then there were a lot of women poets running around.
> >>
>
>Name five (other than the Sainted Emily).
Known to Ransom et all? Lots in the 20s and 30s: Amy Lowell, Adelaide
Crapsey, Lola Ridge, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, H.D., Marianne Moore,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Marya Zaturenskaya, Nathalia Crane,
Muriel Rukeyser. As in Britain the woman poet was quite the figure.
><<
>Which said, I'd rather be tipping one back with you in cold dark Glasgow
>than sitting in balmy San Diego doping this stuff out.
> >>
>
>Concur.
>
>Mind you, as I'm +still+ prolly barred from every Byres Road pub ... How
>about we meet somewhere in Rose Street in Edinburgh, and down a cuppla pints
>of heavy?
>
>Yeah, I +know+... Edinburgh ... But nevertheless ...
>
>Robin
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