The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley

By:

Phillis Wheatley

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first black American to publish a book and enjoyed international fame during her short life. Yet despite the considerable achievements of this young poet, her work has received little critical attention. This collection restores her to her proper place in America's literary heritage. Together with the editor's essay on 'Phillis Wheatley's Struggle for Freedom in Her Poetry and Prose', the collection reveals her to have been a writer who passionately sought freedom, both for herself and for her people, through her work, and who, in her contemplative elegies and use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, anticipated the Romantic movement of the following century.

Author Biography:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

Release date Australia

February 15th, 1990

Author

Phillis Wheatley

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by John C Shields

Illustrations

frontispiece

Pages

380

Series

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

Dimensions

117x164x25

ISBN-13

9780195060850

Product ID

2818037

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