 | 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... | |
 | Constance Classen - 1998 - 254 pages
...she faced as a temale poee: I am ohnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle hetter fits A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: I f what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was hy chance.45 Iust... | |
 | Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson - 1998 - 546 pages
...prologue to "The Four Elements" when she declares her fondness for the "poet's pen," and writes that "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits." 4 In its distilling of a spiritual story to its essence, the little autobiography that came from that... | |
 | Stephanie Merrim - 1999 - 374 pages
...or others'or the self to the necessary "nothing." Three of Anne Bradstreet's most cited lines read: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says...pen all scorn I should thus wrong, for such despite [contempt] they cast on female wits" ("Prologue," 15). Much as this sounds like a protofeminist statement,... | |
 | Marion Wynne-Davies - 1999 - 426 pages
...pursuing the publication of her works. Even before The Tenth Muse was published, she was aware that 'I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits' (The Prologue', 1650), and in 'In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy... | |
 | Therese Boos Dykeman - 1999 - 392 pages
...monarchs and warriors. She counters her "Prologue's" "humility stance" commonplace with feminist satire: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ who says my hand a needle better fits.. ..They'll say its stolen or else it was by chance.4 Experimental science, inductive argument, and human... | |
 | Nancy Henley, Jacqueline Desire Goodchilds - 2000 - 340 pages
...M C en are not opposed to women working, just against their being paid for it. —Barbara Bodichon for such despite they cast on Female wits: If what...They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance, —Anne Bradstreet hen I ran for DC City Council one of the reporters who interviewed me w. mentioned... | |
 | Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass - 2000 - 388 pages
...1650), in which she predicted the hostility she expected - or hoped to forestall - from her public: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...hand a needle better fits; A poet's pen all scorn I thus should wrong.19 Not all audiences were as critical of women wielding pens as Bradstreet expected... | |
 | Hugh Amory, David D. Hall - 2000 - 676 pages
...already asserted her ownership and authority as a woman in a poem that appeared in the first edition: 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... | |
 | Anne Bradstreet, Robert Hutchinson - 2011 - 84 pages
...striving paine: Art can do much, but this maxima's most sure A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. 24 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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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. 
