The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486115291

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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 African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.


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
A Voice of Her Own
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Kathryn Lasky
Categories: African American poets
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.
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