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Anne Bradstreet’s collection 'The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America' is significant because it was:

  1. The first book of poetry by an American colonist published in England
  2. A secret personal diary discovered more than two hundred years after her death
  3. A detailed scientific treatise cataloguing local botany and plant species
  4. The first full-length novel composed and printed in the New World
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Correct answer: The first book of poetry by an American colonist published in England

Published in 1650, this collection made Bradstreet the first published poet of the New World. Although her later, more personal poems are now more famous, this volume established her as a serious intellectual in the trans-Atlantic world.

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