“An American Triptych” In her book An American Triptych, Wendy Martin writes about three extraordinary women poets. Martin takes you through the history of the lives of Anne Bradstreet’s Puritanism to Emily Dickinson’s transdentalism to Adrienne Rich’s modern feminism. In this book you will learn how much their lives were alike and different and how each lived in different time periods. “This book is an effort not only to understand the experience …showed first 75 words of 1032 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1032 total…reading and very knowledgeable. To sum up this book An American Triptych, Wendy Martin’s writes in her last sentence of the book, “Anne Bradstreet ultimately saw heaven as her home; Emily Dickinson thought her home was paradise; Adrienne Rich tried to envision a society in which all women can be at home”(234). Works Cited Martin, Wendy. An American Triptych. Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich. London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**