The opening line about ill-formed offspring is credited to which author?

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The opening line about ill-formed offspring is credited to which author?

That line is a self-portrait in metaphor, coming from Anne Bradstreet. In her poem “The Author to Her Book,” she speaks to her manuscript as an ill-formed offspring of her feeble brain, acknowledging its rough, imperfect state before publication. This wink at the writer’s own vulnerability and pride is characteristic of Bradstreet’s voice as one of the earliest American poets, and it appears in the collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). The other authors listed did not write that line, so attribution to Bradstreet is the strongest fit.

That line is a self-portrait in metaphor, coming from Anne Bradstreet. In her poem “The Author to Her Book,” she speaks to her manuscript as an ill-formed offspring of her feeble brain, acknowledging its rough, imperfect state before publication. This wink at the writer’s own vulnerability and pride is characteristic of Bradstreet’s voice as one of the earliest American poets, and it appears in the collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). The other authors listed did not write that line, so attribution to Bradstreet is the strongest fit.

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