The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America[1] is a 1650 book of poetry by Anne Bradstreet.
[citation needed] Bradstreet wrote the poem "The Author to Her Book" in 1666 when a second edition was contemplated.
Fortunately for her, she did not suffer negative consequences like Anne Hutchinson, who was also a Puritan writer of her time.
[3] Other writers such as Ann Stanford and Samuel Eliot Morison have also critiqued The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
Stanford felt that in Bradstreet's second edition of The Tenth Muse, she used her poetry to go against the Puritan society and should have been labelled as "rebellious" and "independent".