The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
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Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral, on which this volume is based. Wheatley's poetry created a sensation throughout the English-speaking world, and the young poet read her work in aristocratic drawing rooms on both sides of the Atlantic. The London Chronicle...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:048647593X
ISBN13:9780486475936
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.28 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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