quaternions were her most successful. The central tension in her work is that between delight in the world and belief of its vanity. Selected works Before the Birth of One of Her Children A Dialogue between Old England and New A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment Another Another (II) For Deliverance From A Fever Deliverance from Another Sore Fit Contemplations (poem) In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659 The Author to Her Book The Flesh and the Spirit The Four Ages of Man (quaternion) Four Seasons of the Year (quaternion) Four Elements (quaternion) Of The Four Ages of Man (quaternion) The Four Monarchies (quaternion) The Prologue To Her Father with Some Verses To My Dear and Loving Husband Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno 1632 Aetatis Suae, 19 Upon My Son Samuel His Going For England, November 6, 1657 Upon Some Distemper of Body Verses upon the Burning of our House The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650) and, from the Manuscripts. Meditations Divine and Morall, Letters, and Occasional Poems, Facsimile ed., 1965, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, . An Exact Epitome of the Three First Monarchies (1650) (a.k.a. Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies) In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old References Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, John Berryman, Faber and Faber, 1959 Further reading Cook, Faith, Anne Bradstreet Pilgrim and Poet, EP Books, Darlington 2010 Gordon, Charlotte, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet, Little, Brown, New York 2005 Engberg, Kathrynn Seidler, The Right to Write: The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley. University Press of America, Washington D.C., 2009. Nichol, Heidi, Anne Bradstreet, A Guided Tour of the Life and Thought of a Puritan Poet, P&R Publishing, New Jersey 2006 Williams, Katie Munday, Poet, Pilgraim, Rebel: The Story of Anne Bradstreet, America's First Published Poet, Beaming Books, Minneapolis 2021 External links Selected Works of Anne Bradstreet hypertext from American Studies at the University of Virginia. Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning by Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Boston: Printed by John Foster, 1678, at A Celebration of Women Writers Full Text Links from the William Dean Howell Society Genealogical Record Audio: Robert Pinsky reads "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet (via poemsoutloud.net) Audio: