Wheatley, Phillis

Collects the letters, proposals, and poems--including extant works and variants--of eighteenth-century African-American writer Phillis Wheatley, who, a teenage female slave, became the first internationally well-known Black poet in the English language. Also includes writings by her contemporaries, and an introduction to her life and career.

Presents a collection of writings by nineteenth-century author Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.

Poems and letters of the first significant black American writer who knew no English when she was brought from Africa to Boston as a child in the eighteenth century.

Presents nearly forty poems by eighteenth-century writer Phillis Wheatley, a slave who achieved fame as the first published African-American poet.

A selection of poems by Phillis Wheatley, a former slave and the first African-American poet to publish a book, and includes lsetters and a memoir by Wheatley's descendant Margaretta Matilda Odell.