The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley

by Phillis Wheatley

Book Overview

The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have come to dominate the larger Afro-American literary landscape. Yet the works of the writers who founded and nurtured the black women's literary tradition--nineteenth-century Afro-American women--have remained buried in research libraries or in expensive hard-to-find reprints, often inaccessible to twentieth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060857
• ISBN13: 9780195060850
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A treasure of early American poetry by a young African

Love the richness and wisdom of these poems

Authentic

The text is Phillis Wheatley's original poetry ,spelling preserved and all! I searched all over to find the famous poet's actual words and here they are. If you are researching Phillis this is a must-read.