The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley

By:

Phillis Wheatley

Format:

Hardback

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 never received its critical due. 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.

Release date NZ

July 28th, 1988

Author

Phillis Wheatley

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by John C Shields

Illustrations

frontispiece

Pages

384

Series

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

Dimensions

148x223x32

ISBN-13

9780195052411

Product ID

7248120

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