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" I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. "
The Second Church in Boston: Commemorative Services Held on the Completion ... - Page 85
by Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 206 pages
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...of kings 15 A Bartas can do what a Bartas will But simple I according to my skill. (1. 1 1 —12) 16 . Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, (1. 25—26) 17 For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance....
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Choosing Not Choosing

Sharon Cameron - 1992 - 280 pages
...why Bradstreet herself declined to publish, although in "The Prologue [to Her Book]" she had declared "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits. . . . If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance."...
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The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United ...

Glenna Matthews - 1992 - 320 pages
...wrote poetry, she published, and she thrived—although she does tell us that, in so doing, she was "obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits." Moreover, America's first poet wrote on an extraordinary range of topics from the domestic to the worldhistorical....
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Early American Writing

Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...striving pain Art can do much, but this maxime's most sure A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on Female wits: If what I do prove...
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820

Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 pages
...speaker takes a more assertive position and castigates those who held that a woman should not be a poet: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits." Moreover, she complains of those who, assuming that women cannot be writers, will "say it's stoln,...
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Nineteenth-century Women Learn to Write

Catherine Hobbs - 1995 - 372 pages
...in print. The most memorable of these may be the frequently cited lines of Anne Bradstreet's poem, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits ..." As the population increased and concentrated in urban centers and the economy changed, more and...
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College Level Examination Programme: Analysis and Interpretation of Literature

2005 - 276 pages
...striving pain. Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. 5 25 I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...female wits. If what I do prove well, it won't advance; 30 They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. By Anne B rods t ree t 15. From the context the...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...dusty bread. LOUISE BOGAN, (1897-1970) US poet, critic. "Women," st. 1, Body of this Death (1923). 9 I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. ANNE BRADSTREET, (c. 1612-1672) US poet. "The Prologue," (1650). Repr. in Several Poems Compiled with...
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Craft and Contemporary Theory

Sue Rowley - 1997 - 238 pages
...rather than cloth. Anne Bradstreet acknowledges that a woman's writing challenges male prerogative: 'I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better fits. . ,'.25 For Finch, embroidered representation is wishy-washy and conventional compared with written...
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The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination

Constance Classen - 1998 - 264 pages
...spin?"44 In the same century the poet Anne Bradstreet wrote of the censure she faced as a female poet: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.45 Just as the contrast between star-gazing and cooking evoked by...
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