Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / A reliable text of the poetry of the first American poet has never before been established. Anne Bradstreet's works have survived the tides of critical opinion, high in her own century and low in the nineteenth, and have found a steady flow of approval in more recent years. Although she was not a great poet, she was a significant minor poet, and she deserves to be remembered for the aesthetic merit of her work, not for being the quaint Early American antique she is often considered to be. Perry Miller says that "every collection of American poetry must s alute the lyrics of Anne Bradstreet." To establish a reliable text of her works is the pur pose of this edition [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01

Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2001. / Thesis advisor: Gilbert L. Gigliotti. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Literature." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-64). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Masters) -- Simmons College, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (l. 79-85)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 1998. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-280).

The four poets in this dissertation--Hester Pulter, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Frost--write poems that resist domestic confinement. In these poems, houses become prisons from which the poet must enact an escape. Pulter, Bradstreet, Hardy and Frost--writers drawn from two sides of the Atlantic and two different centuries--are nevertheless linked by the urge to create poems that will provide doorways to less confined states of existence. They are also linked by the formal strategies they use for the attainment of such poetic release, and by the scale of their rebellion against enclosing structures. All four poets make claustrophobic domestic spaces the topic of their poetry, but rather than writing their objections into the unbounded space of free verse, they mimic the confinement of small rooms in the restrained dimensions of their poems. Rather than discard the enclosure of poetry, they accept its confinement. Their forms of release, then, are more pointed; they emerge at brief instances, as opposed to making wholesale departures. Instead of using their poems to create boundless spaces, unrestricted by walls and ceilings and floors, they use their poems to create rooms similar to those occupied by their personae. In poems such as these, poetic freedom is less absolute than relative to the extent of confinement, and it is made sweeter by the awareness of inescapable limits. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-79).

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-79).

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-79).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-270). Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-61).