A poem commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library states that reading this poet makes the skies “rise higher and hang younger stars.” That poem by Eavan Boland quotes this poet’s lines about finding “nought save homespun cloth” in the house. The 57th and final stanza of a poem [emphasize] about this poet states that “Love has no body and presides the sun” and calls this poet a “sourcing whom my lost candle like the firefly loves.” The prologue to a collection by this poet describes reading Du Bartas and opens, “To sing of Wars, of Captaines, and of Kings.” This subject of an “Homage” by John Berryman wrote that that collection was published prematurely “by friends, less wise than true” in a poem that addresses it as “rambling brat” and the “ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain.” For 10 points, name this poet of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. ■END■
ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet [or Anne Dudley] (The poem in the penultimate line is “The Author to Her Book.”)
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