Poems E-book
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Genre: Literature, Poetry
Wheatley, Phillis(1753-1784) African-born American poet, she was the
first African-American woman writer. Bought as a slave by a merchant, she
demonstrated unusual intelligence as a youth and was given an education. Her
poems, well-received at home and abroad, were praised by George Washington.
Poems (1773)
Includes three works by Wheatley written in iambic pentameter:
On Imagination; On the Death of C.E., An Infant of Twelve Months;
and To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth.
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