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Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780195060850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780140424300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions--including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0486115291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Author: John C. Shields
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010-08-19
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1572337052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry."--Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first.
Author: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0820333387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.
Author: John C. Shields
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010-07-27
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1572337125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767. Her tribute to a famed pastor, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,” followed in 1770, catapulting her into the international spotlight, and publication of her 1773 Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London created her an international star. Despite the attention she received at the time, history has not been kind to Wheatley. Her work has long been neglected or denigrated by literary critics and historians. John C. Shields, a scholar of early American literature, has tried to help change this perception, and Wheatley has begun to take her place among the elite of American writers. In Phillis Wheatley and the Romantic Age, Shields contends that Wheatley was not only a brilliant writer but one whose work made a significant impression on renowned Europeans of the Romantic age, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who borrowed liberally from her works, particularly in his famous distinction between fancy and imagination. Shields shows how certain Wheatley texts, particularly her “Long Poem,” consisting of “On Recollection,” “Thoughts on the Works of Providence,” and “On Imagination,” helped shape the face of Romanticism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Phillis Wheatley and the Romantic Age helps demolish the long-held notion that literary culture flowed in only one direction: from Europe to the Americas. Thanks to Wheatley’s influence, Shields argues, the New World was influencing European literary masters far sooner than has been generally understood.
Author: John C. Shields
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2011-05-30
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1572337265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work. In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature have been reconceived. Fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. --from publisher description.
Author: Cedrick May
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2024-11-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621909422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This text will become the definitive collection of Hammon's work--not only because of the archival finds that Cedrick May features but also because of his careful and attentive reconstruction of Hammon's historical, political, social, and religious contexts."--Katy Chiles, author of Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America "This volume, which reflects those discoveries about the Hammon's life and work that have taken place since Ransom's earlier collection, will enable scholars, instructors, students, and other interested readers ready to access the most up-to-date assessment and presentation of this pioneering African American author's body of work."--Ajuan Mance, editor of Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century Editor Cedrick May's The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon offers a complete look at the literary achievements of one of the founders of African American literature: Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?), the first Black writer to be published in what became the United States of America. With this collection--the most comprehensive volume on Hammon's works to date--May carefully reconstructs the historical, political, social, and religious contexts that shaped Hammon's essays and poems throughout the late eighteenth century. This fresh presentation and insightful reevaluation sets down a new rubric for how Hammon, an enslaved person from New York, can be studied and appreciated among literary scholars and readers alike.
Author: Phillis Wheatley
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1458715302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer a repudiation that eventually inspired generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition. Writing with all the lyricism and critical skill that place him at the forefront of American letters, Gates brings to life the characters, debates, and controversy that surrounded Wheatley in her day and ours.
