The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir

by Phillis Wheatley

Book Overview

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: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"