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Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings Paperback - 2001
by Wheatley, Phillis
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- Title Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings
- Author Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-02-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00MU1K_ns
- ISBN 9780140424300 / 014042430X
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.06 x 0.52 in (19.61 x 12.85 x 1.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, African American poets
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00044611
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions--including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams.