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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Phillis Wheatley
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of Afr
Complete Writings
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Phillis Wheatley
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-02-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: John C. Shields
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-19 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

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"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It wil
Phillis Wheatley
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Vincent Carretta
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-30 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a b
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Language: en
Pages: 102
Authors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10 - Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

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In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emanc