Phillis Wheatley
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Standard Name: Wheatley, Phillis
Despite her youth at the time she published most of her works,
is an interesting and original late eighteenth-century poetic voice. Her poems (dozens published in newspapers, as well as collected) and letters range through social feeling, classical allusion, the religious, and the political, with mostly veiled comments on her own peculiar status as a black African slave writing for free people. Her race, gender, and enslaved status give her a particular interest, but her literary achievement makes a solid part of that interest.Timeline
Texts
Wheatley, Phillis. An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and learned George Whitefield. Ezekiel Russell, 1770.
Wheatley, Phillis. An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the great Divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper. Ezekiel Russell, 1784.
Gates, Henry Louis, and Phillis Wheatley. “Foreword: In Her Own Write”. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields and John C. Shields, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxii.
Wheatley, Phillis. Liberty and Peace. Warden and Russell, 1784.
Gates, Henry Louis, Phillis Wheatley, and Henry Louis Gates. “Phillis Wheatley’s Struggle for Freedom in her Poetry and Prose”. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields, Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 229-70.
Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. A. Bell, 1773.
Gates, Henry Louis, Phillis Wheatley, and Henry Louis Gates. “Preface”. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. xxvii - xxxii.
Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.