An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich by Wendy MartinISBN: 9780807815731
Publication Date: 1984-01-16
Wendy Martin recreates the textures of the lives of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich, showing how they parallel the shifts in the status of American women from private companion to participant in a wider public life. The three portraits examine in detail the life and work of the Puritan wife of a colonial magistrate, the white-robed, reclusive New England seer, and the modern feminist and lesbian activist. Their poetry, Martin argues, tells us much about the evolution of feminist and patriarchal perspectives.