Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley

Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley

For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This new edition has been extensively revised in light of Wheatley scholarship since its publication. It has been expanded to include all of the fifty-six poems and twenty-two letters now known to be by Wheatley, the significant variants of the poems, and the four Proposals for publication of her works, all of them annotated.

This edition contains the recently discovered poem Ocean, new information about Wheatley's library (including a southern connection), a more accurate reading of a letter central to understanding the response to her 1772 Proposals, new variants of two poems, and a new reading of her George Washington poem. By going back to the original manuscripts (and to first printings when the manuscripts are not extant), Mason has provided the fullest and most accurate edition of Wheatley's poems and letters yet produced. The new index and bibliography assure the volume's usefulness for the scholar, the student, and the general reader.

Phillis Wheatley (1753-84) was the first published African-American poet. She was born in West Africa, abducted, and sold as a slave to the Wheatley family of Boston. Wheatley was educated alongside her master's children and won international acclaim with her early poems before fading into obscurity and dying in poverty.

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ISBN 13	9781557092335
ISBN 10	1557092338
Title	Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Author	Phillis Wheatley
Series	Applewood Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Year published	1995-04-01
Number of pages	108
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