Question
Answer the following about the career of Martha Wadsworth Brewster, the first American-born woman to publish using her real name. For 10 points each:
[10e] In a poem to her son, Brewster spelled out “Wadsworth Brewster” at the first letter in each line, an example of this type of poem.
ANSWER: acrostic
[10m] Brewster's poem “Delight in Reading,” addressed to her daughter Ruby, mirrors many thematic aspects of this earlier poem, which describes the title object as “Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain.”
ANSWER: “The Author to Her Book”
[10h] Brewster's line “Ye Creatures all, in vast Amazement Stand” was likely written to refute critics who thought she stole lines from this author and minister who wrote “Joy to the World” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”
ANSWER: Isaac Watts
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