 | Muna Lee - 2004 - 340 pages
...else some man must have been the real author if truth were known. To such calumny Anne retorted hotly: 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, For such dispute they cast on female wits, If what I do, prove well, it won't advance,... | |
 | Kelly M. Kapic, Randall C. Gleason - 2004 - 324 pages
...founded, Common-wealths begun" (113). She also noted, with respect to her sex, that in composing verse, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits" (114). But the poem also boldly suggested that, although "Men can do best, and women know it well,"... | |
 | Patricia Demers - 2005 - 376 pages
...wreath' (line 48) and pre-empting by discrediting the criticism based on woman's role as a needleworker: 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, (lines 27—32) The envoy, 'The Author to Her Book,' anticipates... | |
 | Wisam Abdul Jabbar - 2005 - 266 pages
...Prologue" to her volume, she defended her poetic wind against those who claimed that it "shucked no corn": 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. She denounces the fact that women are ill treated by men who look... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 pages
...both. — ALICE STONE BLACKWELL The truth often sounds paradoxical. — LAO Tzu If what I do proves well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. — ANNE BRADSTREET Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with... | |
 | Alicia Gaspar de Alba - 2007 - 404 pages
...running her finger down the text of "The Prologue" until her eye found the lines she was looking for: "'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.' " "Ma, I can't hear myself thinking with Thankful Seagraves up there... | |
 | David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim - 2007 - 392 pages
...of her fellow Puritans' hostility toward her literary endeavors. For example, in one poem she wrote: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits." Many of Bradstreet's most well-known poems were not published until after her death, but she is now... | |
 | Hugh Amory, David D. Hall - 2009 - 665 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, 149 A Poets pen all scorn I should thus "wrong, For such despite they cast on Female "wits: If "what... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2008 - 653 pages
...Greek, / Who lisped at first, in future times speak plain" — and asserts her right to be a poet: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits." Skillfully, she casts the blame upon those who would criticize her as a female poet: "For such despite... | |
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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. 
