Poet and Muse diptych of a wax tablet; the inscription has not survived, so there can be no way to identify the writer for whom it was made. In the literature that has accumulated about this diptych, various prominent figures have been offered as candidates: Ausonius, Boethius, and Claudian, and even earlier figures, like Ennius and Seneca, with whom the donor wished to be associated The muse represented is Erato, muse of lyric poetry, with her usual attribute, the cithara, which she rests upon an ornately fluted column. The poet on the facing panel is seated, roused from his contemplation by the inspiring presence
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America Woodbridge took the manuscript to England where it was published. The "Four Monarchies" is regarded by some critics as epic. Many critics believe that Bradstreet was a woman who pushed the boundaries of her religion. Fortunately for her, she did not suffer the negative consequences like Anne Hutchinson, who was also a Puritan writer of her time. Other writers such as Ann Stanford and Samuel Eliot Morison have done their own critiquing of Anne Bradstreet's "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