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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
This colletction was the only volume to come out during her lifetime. The first american version was expanded and named Several Poems Compiled with Great Wit and Learning. -
,Anne Bradstreet
,Anne Bradstreet was the first women to be thought of as a "great new world poet" in the british north colonies Bradstreetsvolume of poetry "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America "is well recognized even today. -
Anne Kingsmill Finch
Anne Kingsmill Finch was born in April,1661, she was the third child of Sir William Kingsmill. She lived her childhood with out a father, for Sir William died five months after her birth. She grew up to become though a poet, she wrote about 98. She wrote in the privacy of her home becuse poeple thought it funny for an aristicratic women to write( be writters). -
The life and legacy.
September 16, 1672, Andover, MA
the day when Anne Bradsrteet died. -
Anne Kingsmill Finch
August 5, 1720, City of Westminster, United Kingdom is when and where Anne Kingsmill Finch died. -
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis was born 1753 in africa. -
From Africa to America
In 1761 Philis was captured and taken to america.Where she was sold to John Wheatley as a present to his wife. -
His Excellency General Washington
Phillis Wheatley wrote a poem to George Washington.
It is titled His Excellency General Washington.
There is some controversy as to if he read it or not. -
The trip
In 1771 Phillis Wheatley went to England, a place where copies of her poems had been sent before. The trip was said to be a sea trip to improve her health. While in England she later published some poems. -
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Phillis Wheatley
In the year 1773 Phillis Wheatley published her first book of poems. Titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. While on her trip to London,England.
It included thirtynine poems, on sujects such as ones that adressed poems dealing with race. -
A free woman
Scholars say inbetween the years 1774-1778 Phillis Wheatley became free( the exact date is not known). During her freedom her masters died, so she then had to support herself. She continued to write poetry but had other jobs as well. -
What a legacy
December 5, 1784 Phillis Wheatley died in Boston,MA -
Jane and Ann Taylor
The Taylor sisters in a photo designed by their father. -
Twinkle,Twinkle (continued)
link to poem
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Who wrote twinkle,twinkle little little star( a.k.a "the star"
Jane Taylor( along with her sister Ann) is the person who wrote the poem the star. Or as we know it Twinkle,Twinkle little star. Over the year s it has been forgotten who wrote it. And today kids only know the first verse " twinkle, twinkle little star. how I wonder what you are. up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky. But there is more to it ( contued in next slide) -
George Eliot
George Eliot was the penn name of MaryAnn Evans a novolest of the ninetenth century. -
Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte is the younger sister of Charolette and Emily.She is also the author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. -
Charlette bronte'
Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Elizabeth Brontë, Maria Brontë are Charlette bronte's siblings. thos of them who lived to adult hood were writers -
Jane taylor
April 13, 1824 is when Jane taylor died. -
Poetry is not for me
In the 1830s- the 1840s it was not uncommon for people to go from writing poetry to writing novels, as Charlotte Bronte did. She wrote about 23 poems before she resorted to literature. -
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt Jackson grew up in Amherst, and was friends with (one of its most famous members of the town )Emily Dickinson, when she was in school. When she grew up she persued a similar life path as to that of Dickinson and became a poet. She moved across the country to CA. and also became a native american rights ativist. -
Helen Hunt Jackson
October 18, 1830, Amherst, MA is where she was born. It is the same place and year that her friend Emily Dickinson was born. -
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th,1830 in Amherst,MA.
The place she lived and learned all her life until her death. -
Louisa May Alcott, where it all began.
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a loved poet in the U.S and her homeland in england during her life time. -
Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was against slavery and published two poems about the "barbarity" of slave holders. They were titled "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" and "A Curse for a Nation". -
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte wrote alot of poems and verses, but there are only two that she is widely known for. They came from her novel Jane Eyre(1847), and they were not actually poems but songs! -
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott wrote poems and short stories under the title Flora Fairfield, also she used the pen name A.M Barnard. But after the Civil War ( april12,1861) she decided she wanted to be a serious writer and started using her real name. -
Little Women
In 1869 Louisa May Alcott wrote the book Litttle Women. -
A Century of Dishonor
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote a century of Dishonor in 1881. It talked about the injustises Native Americans faced. -
Emily Dickonsin's Death
In 1886 Emily Dickinson died. After her death her family found nearly 40 volumes of poetry. That's 1,800 poems( most of her poems were around seven lines long). -
Qoute
'Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.."
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Go women
Because of the people of the past we have great poeple today. -
National Poetry Month
In 1996 national poetry month was formed .And everyone celebrates poetrys place in american culture. -
Gone to soon
on may 28th 2014 Maya Angelou died, she was 86 years old.
