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Episode 14 | Matt Mullins on Anne Bradstreet

The Scandal of Reading

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Is There a Classical Vocabulary?

Her father was training her in the Greek and Roman classics she was learning Greek and Latin and stuff like that from a very young age. She had this classic literary vocabulary and imaginary that gave her ways of seeing and reading and interpreting the world around her. And then you see them show up in illusions you know throughout her poetry. There really is ancient wisdom that we can draw on that's going to give us much better answers so thank you for sharing that part of her story.

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