The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir: With Letters and a Memoir By: Phillis Wheatley

by Phillis Wheatley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639239979
• ISBN13: 9781639239979
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Lushena Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"