Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics

by Paula Loscocco

Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137474777
• ISBN13: 9781137474773
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"