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Martin, Wendy, 1940-

An American triptych : Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich / by Wendy Martin.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1984.

x, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Traces the lives of three American women, Puritan, Victorian, and modern, and compares the themes and philosophy of their poetry.

Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.

American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Women and literature -- United States -- History.

Puritan movements in literature.

Theology in literature.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Anne Bradstreet: "As weary pilgrim" -- Introduction -- 1. "I found a new world" -- 2. The Tenth Muse -- 3. "Be still, thou unregenerate part" -- 4. "The Rising Self" -- 5. "Were earthly comforts permanent" -- Part Two: Emily Dickinson: "A Woman -- White -- to be" -- Introduction -- 6. "The Soul selects her own Society" -- 7. "Your Wayward Scholar" -- 8. "A Word made Flesh" -- 9. "Earth is Heaven" -- 10. "The skill of life" -- Part Three: Adrienne Rich: "A woman with a certain mission" -- Introduction -- 11. "Find Yourself and You Find the World" -- 12. "Visionary Anger Cleansing My Sight" -- 13. "A Whole New Poetry Beginning Here" -- 14. "A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far" -- 15. "A New Relation to the Universe."

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