Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Name: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
Author: Phillis Wheatley
ISBN: 9781787365551

Author: Phillis Wheatley
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 80 pages
ISBN: 9781787365551
Published: 20 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

african american
african
black culture
black heritage
discrimination
racism
salvery
equality
inequality
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Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is an exemplary corpus of neoclassical lyrical works that has been hailed as a pioneering achievement in the history of American literature. Wheatley's oeuvre stands out for its nuanced exploration of theological, philosophical, and moral discourses, offering readers an insight into the 18th-century colonial context in which it was crafted.

Author

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was taken from West Africa as a child, enslaved in the Wheatley household in Boston, and became the first African American woman to publish a book of poems. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral appeared in London in 1773, after Boston gentlemen signed that a young enslaved woman could have written it. She addressed Washington; she wrote in the Augustan line. The couplets are accomplished.

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