The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley
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The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley
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Author : Phillis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Release Date : 1988
The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and has been published by Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
Contains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.
The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley
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Author : Phillis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
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Complete Writings
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Author : Phillis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2001-02-01
Complete Writings written by Phillis Wheatley and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-01 with Poetry categories.
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 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics
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Author : John C. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2010-08-19
Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics written by John C. Shields and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry."--Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first.
Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics
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Author : John C. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2010-07-27
Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics written by John C. Shields and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767. Her tribute to a famed pastor, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,” followed in 1770, catapulting her into the international spotlight, and publication of her 1773 Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London created her an international star. Despite the attention she received at the time, history has not been kind to Wheatley. Her work has long been neglected or denigrated by literary critics and historians. John C. Shields, a scholar of early American literature, has tried to help change this perception, and Wheatley has begun to take her place among the elite of American writers. In Phillis Wheatley and the Romantic Age, Shields contends that Wheatley was not only a brilliant writer but one whose work made a significant impression on renowned Europeans of the Romantic age, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who borrowed liberally from her works, particularly in his famous distinction between fancy and imagination. Shields shows how certain Wheatley texts, particularly her “Long Poem,” consisting of “On Recollection,” “Thoughts on the Works of Providence,” and “On Imagination,” helped shape the face of Romanticism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Phillis Wheatley and the Romantic Age helps demolish the long-held notion that literary culture flowed in only one direction: from Europe to the Americas. Thanks to Wheatley’s influence, Shields argues, the New World was influencing European literary masters far sooner than has been generally understood.
The Poems Of Phillis Wheatley
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Author : Phillis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-15
The Poems Of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Poetry categories.
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.
New Essays On Phillis Wheatley
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Author : John C. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2011-05-30
New Essays On Phillis Wheatley written by John C. Shields and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-30 with Literary Collections categories.
The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work. In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature have been reconceived. Fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. --from publisher description.
The Collected Works Of Jupiter Hammon
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Author : Cedrick May
language : en
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2017
The Collected Works Of Jupiter Hammon written by Cedrick May and has been published by Univ Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Collections categories.
Phillis Wheatley
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Author : Vincent Carretta
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Phillis Wheatley written by Vincent Carretta and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 book and only the second woman--of any race or background--to do so in America.
The Slave Poet From Boston Collected Writings On Phillis Wheatley
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2022-02-08
The Slave Poet From Boston Collected Writings On Phillis Wheatley written by Various and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America, where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote "To the University of Cambridge" when she was 14. By 20 had found patronage in Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies, and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a fantastic collection of assorted writings by various authors on the subject of Wheatley, exploring her interesting life and influential work. Contents include: "Introduction from Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, 1834", "Letter from George Washington to Phillis", "An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley by Jupiter Hammon", "A Memoir from Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, 1834", "Phillis Wheatley by William Wells Brown", "Phillis Wheatley by L. Maria Child", "Phillis Wheatley by A. Mott And M. S. Wood", "An Excerpt by George Washington Williams", "Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Griffith Brawley", "Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley by Robert Thomas Kerlin", etc. Brilliant Women are proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic essays and excerpts for a new generation of readers.