Below, we select and introduce ten of her best. If this selection whets your appetite for more, we recommend the highly affordable volume The Poems of Phillis Wheatley with Letters and a …

Poems on Various Subjects revealed that Wheatley’s favorite poetic form was the couplet, both iambic pentameter and heroic. More than one-third of her canon is composed of elegies, …

Twenty of her fifty five surviving poems are elegies written to comfort relatives with eternal life in heaven. Wheatley also wrote about current political events such as the Stamp Act and was a …

Apr 9, 2024 · The 25 Phillis Wheatley poems below are among her best and show how strong she was at her craft, and how she helped shape the opinions of colonial men and women. Get the …

Feb 24, 2019 · POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL. By Phillis Wheatley (Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston, In New-England) 1771

Dec 17, 2018 · Following is a selection of poems by Phillis Wheatley from this collection. It was the first book by a slave to be published in the Colonies, and only the third book by a woman in …

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Poems by Phillis Wheatley On Being Brought From Africa to America "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's …

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption…

In 1838, Boston-based publisher and abolitionist Isaac Knapp published a collection of Wheatley's poetry, along with that of enslaved North Carolina poet George Moses Horton, under the title …