The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
With Letters and a Memoir
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 went so far as to declare her perhaps one of the greatest instances of pure, unassisted genius that the world ever produced. Wheatley's elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses into the origins of African-…
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- ISBN: 978-0-486-11529-0
- EAN: 0800759115297
- Produktnummer: 20535963
- Verlag: Dover Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 587 KB
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