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John C. Shields

Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767. Her tribute to a famed pastor, On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, followed in 1770, catapulting her into the international spotlight, and publication of her 1773 Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London created her an international star. Despite the attention she received at the time, history has not been kind to Wheatley. Her work has long been neglected or denigrated by l… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-57233-705-3
  • EAN: 9781572337053
  • Produktnummer: 6560930
  • Verlag: Univ Of Tennessee Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 140 S.
  • Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.7 cm 370 g
  • Gewicht: 370

Über den Autor


John C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self (named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book and awarded honorable mention in competition for the American Comparative Literature Association's HARRY LEVIN PRIZE) and of Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation. He is Distinguished Professor of English and director of the Center for Classicism in American Culture at Illinois State University.

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