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Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101071961807
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : English poetry
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000103704
Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486115290
At 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 : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 014042430X
The 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 : Read Books Ltd
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528791021
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote "To the University of Cambridge” when she was 14 and by 20 had found patronage in the form of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a collection of Wheatley's best poetry, including the titular poem “Being Brought from Africa to America”. Contents include: “Phillis Wheatley”, “Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Brawley”, “To Maecenas”, “On Virtue”, “To the University of Cambridge”, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell”, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000111813048
Author : Isaac Hawkins Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1768
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:400068374
Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195060857
Contains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.
Author : Dorothy Porter Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042398407
Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781458715302
In 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.
Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820346649
Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race or background--to do so in America.
Author : Alison Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1773851357
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry. In 1773, her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published to international acclaim. Wheatley was presented In London as "the African genius," and her writing was published in New England and England alike. Phillis Wheatley's name was known in households throughout literate North America. Yet Phillis Wheatley was a slave. In Phillis, Alison Clarke reaches through time to tell the story of this remarkable woman. Through a series of poems and prose-poems, Clarke presents Wheatley's world with depth and liveliness, reimagining the past for a modern audience while bringing sensibility and passion to the story of Wheatley's life. Wheatley's story is told in first-person poetry that illuminates significant chapters of her life, capturing the brilliant heights of her writing career along with the inevitable, brutal injustices she faced as an enslaved Black person in North America. Interspersed with poems written from the viewpoint of other people who were themselves inspired by Wheatley, this is a collection of poetry that celebrates the resilience and accomplishments of Black History in general and one remarkable woman in particular.
Author : Hadeel Rashed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798669517274
The Great Book of Poems is a collection of poetry all written by Hadeel Rashed for children. The Great Book of Poetry contains a range of poems from rhyming, pyramid poems, haikus and much more!There are colorful interactive pictures and large clear font in order for the reader to easily read.The Great Book of Poems is a great book for children and they are guaranteed to fall in love with the magic of poetry!For children learning poetry at school or learning and writing poetry as a hobby, this is a great book for you, this book contains a variety of poems and you will definitely find it helpful.
Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427084088
Author : Phillis Wheatley,Margaretta Matilda Odell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : African American poets
ISBN : UOM:69015000047965
