Name a Puritan poet and one of her major works.

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Name a Puritan poet and one of her major works.

A clear understanding here is that the Puritan voice in early America is exemplified by Anne Bradstreet, a foundational colonial poet. Her major work, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650, is one of the first books of original American poetry and reflects Puritan concerns—devotion, family, and daily life—expressed with straightforward, earnest verse. The other options mix writers and works from later periods or outside the Puritan context, so they don’t fit the question as well.

A clear understanding here is that the Puritan voice in early America is exemplified by Anne Bradstreet, a foundational colonial poet. Her major work, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650, is one of the first books of original American poetry and reflects Puritan concerns—devotion, family, and daily life—expressed with straightforward, earnest verse. The other options mix writers and works from later periods or outside the Puritan context, so they don’t fit the question as well.

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