...uth and Dunster streets, and his son-in-law, Simon Bradstreet, who built upon the Boylston Street corner of Harvard Square. Upon that familiar site may very likely have begun the literary activity of New England , with some of those ponderous verses of Mrs. Bradstreet's, concerning which Rev. John Norton once said that if Virgil could only have seen them he would have thrown his own heathen doggerel into the ...