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Language: en
Pages: 98
Pages: 98
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
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
Language: en
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Type: BOOK - Published: 1887 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-02-01 - Publisher: Penguin
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
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-30 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 153
Pages: 153
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-19 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It wil