Anne Bradstreet´s The Author To Her Book

COMMENT ON A POEM BY ANNE BRADSTREET THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK Bradstreet regards her book as the product of her brain, saying that it is similar to a child that she has given birth to. At the same time she wishes to seem modest when she refers to it as something feeble. She alludes to her brother- in –law , who took her poems to a publishers ´ presumably without her knowledge. She belonged to a …

…the future of her poem, warning it to be careful of critics and the places where the poem might end up. She finishes by saying that if anyone asks who its father is, it is to reply that it didn´t have one and that the reason it is in the public’s hands is because its mother was so poor that she had to send it away from home, meaning Anne Bradstreet´s mind.