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3. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) American Writer. (1753?1784) American writer. Born in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was the first important African-American poet. At the age of 8, she was captured and sold to the Wheatley family in http://classiclit.about.com/od/wheatleyphillis/Wheatley_Phillis.htm

zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Classic Literature Classic Literature Search Classic Literature Filed In: A-to-Z Writers A-to-Z Writers W - Writers - Last Names (1753?-1784) American writer. Born in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was the first important African-American poet. At the age of 8, she was captured and sold to the Wheatley family in Massachusetts. Early America Review Magazine dedicated to colonial America provides an article discussing America's first African American poet. Perspectives in American Literature Literature reference guide offers a large collection of resources devoted to Wheatley. Find a biography poems a bibliography and essays. zSB(3,3) About Phillis Wheatley - Slave Poet of Colonial America "Phillis Wheatley was born in Africa (probably Senegal) about 1753 or 1754. When she was about eight years old, she was kidnapped and brought to Boston. There, in 1761, John Wheatley bought her for his wife, Susanna, as a personal servant. As was the custom of the time, she was given the Wheatley family's surname." Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley became a Boston sensation when one of her poems was published as a broadside in 1770. Three years later, 39 of her poems were published in London as Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first book to be published by a black American.

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Wheatley, Phillis Average customer rating: A vital foremother of African-American literature Complete Writings (Penguin Classics) Phillis Wheatley , and Vincent Carretta Manufacturer: Penguin Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics) American Captivity Narratives: Selected Narratives With Introduction (New Riverside Editions) Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America (Penguin Classics) ASIN: Release Date: Book Description 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

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7. Phillis Wheatley - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784), enslaved at the age of eight, is widely known as the first AfricanAmerican woman in United States' history to have her poetry published http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Phillis Wheatley, as illustrated by Scipio Moorhead in the Frontispiece to her book Poems on Various Subjects Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784), enslaved at the age of eight, is widely known as the first African-American woman in United States' history to have her poetry published. Constant themes in Wheatley's poems are death, religion, and the struggle of blacks in the U.S. Wheatley also composed many poems that are a type of tribute to admirable figures or influential persons in her life. Wheatley traveled to London and back, with flexibility rare to other enslaved persons, and held an audience with the Lord Mayor of London as well as other delegates. Wheatley's works, at the time, were respected in the realm of literature and impressed all who didn't believe a young girl could produce such works. Contents Early life Her work Tragic demise Lasting influence ... edit Early life Although the date and location of her birthplace is not perfectly documented, it is believed that Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753, somewhere in West Africa , most likely between present-day Gambia and Ghana Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts on July 11, 1761

8. A Voice Of Her Own (Imagination): American Treasures Of The Library Of Congress Brief biography with images of her works. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri013.html

Home Overview Learn More About It Object Checklist (Current) ... Credits Exhibition Sections: Top Treasures Memory Reason Imagination A Voice of Her Own Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. . . Portrait facing Title Page Title Page ... Page 2 London, 1773 The gifted young black poet Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) was celebrated as "the extraordinary poetical genius" of colonial New England even before this compilation of her poems was published in September 1773. Not yet eight years old when she was brought to America from Africa in 1761, Wheatley was educated by her mistress, and her first poem was published in a Rhode Island newspaper when she was only fourteen. Her pious elegies for prominent English and colonial leaders became popular and were often reprinted in colonial newspapers or as broadsides. Wheatley's 1773 visit to London, ostensibly to improve her frail condition, was cut short by her mistress' failing health. Although she was entertained by William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, the abolitionist Grenville Sharpe, John Thornton, and Benjamin Franklin, Wheatley did not meet her patron, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to whom she dedicated her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

9. Phillis Wheatley -- America's First Black Woman Poet Phillis Wheatley America's First Black Woman Poet. Most of Phillis Wheatley's poems reflect her religious and classical New England upbringing. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/wheatley.html

Follow Us On Twitter: Enter Early America's Store Search this site: Early America Home Freedom Documents Declaration of Independence Bill of Rights ... Winter 96 Phillis Wheatley America's First Black Woman Poet Phillis Wheatley was America's first black poet. Born in Senegal, Africa in 1753, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven to John and Susannah Wheatley of Boston. Although originally brought into the Wheatley household as a servant and attendant to Wheatley's wife, Phillis was soon accepted as a member of the family, and was raised with the Wheatley's other two children. Phillis soon displayed her remarkable talents by learning to read and write English. At the age of twelve she was reading the Greek and Latin classics, and passages from the Bible. At thirteen she wrote her first poem. Phillis became a Boston sensation after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitefield in 1770. Three years later thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." It was the first book to be published by a black American. Most of Phillis Wheatley's poems reflect her religious and classical New England upbringing. Writing in heroic couplets, many of her poems consist of elegies while others stress the theme of Christian salvation.

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12. Phillis Wheatley Biography Phillis Wheatley Narrative and Critical History of America Vol. 8 Houghton Mifflin Company www.arttoday.com NAME Phillis Wheatley http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/whea-phi.htm

Phillis Wheatley Narrative and Critical History of America Vol. 8 NAME: Phillis Wheatley DATE OF BIRTH: c. 1753-5 PLACE OF BIRTH: Gambia, Africa DATE OF DEATH: December, 1784 PLACE OF DEATH: Boston, Massachusetts as a result of childbirth FAMILY BACKGROUND: Phillis Wheatley was a slave child of seven or eight and sold to John and Susanna Wheatley in Boston on July 11, 1761. Her first name was apparently derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis ACCOMPLISHMENTS: During her life, while it was not common for American women to be published, it was especially uncommon for children of slaves to be educated at all. Her gift of writing poetry was encouraged by her owners and their daughter, Mary; they taught Phillis to read and write, with her first poem being published at the age of twelve, " On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin." The countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, was a friend of the Wheatley's who greatly encouraged and financed the publication of her book of poetry

13. Phillis Wheatley : Voices From The Gaps : University Of Minnesota Brief biography, poem, links and related sources. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/wheatleyphillis.php

Campuses : Twin Cities Crookston Duluth Morris ... Other Locations Voices From the Gaps voices@umn.edu myU OneStop About VG Artist Pages ... Artist Pages : Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley permissions info b. 1753 - 1784 Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Works in Languages other then English Related Links ... Contributors Related VG Pages Terrell, Mary Church from Artist Pages Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker from Artist Pages Keywords 18th Century Poets Poetry African Americans Not you, my friend, these plaintive strains become, Not you, whose bosom is the Muses home; When they from tow'ring Helicon retire, They fan in you the bright immortal fire, But I less happy, cannot raise the song, The fault'ring music dies upon my tongue. The happier Terence all the choir inspir'd, His soul replenish'd, and his bosom fir'd; But say, ye Muses, why this partial grace, To one alone of Afric's sable race; From age to age transmitting thus his name With the first glory in the rolls of fame? — To Maecenas Biography / Criticism Born in Africa in the early 1750's, the child who would be known as Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston in 1761 to be sold on the slave market. The child was purchased by the Wheatleys, a prominent Boston family. Early on, Phillis showed signs of remarkable intelligence. The Wheatley's noticed this intelligence and encouraged it by making Mary Wheatley her personal tutor. Phillis began writing poems as a young woman and gradually began to see poetry as her avenue of expression in literate white culture. Her first published poem, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin. " appeared in the

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Home Literary Movements Timeline American Authors ... American Literature Sites Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) Selected Bibliography on Phillis Wheatley Teaching Phillis Wheatley from the Heath Anthology site. Prof. Ann Woodlief has prepared hypertext discussion versions of several works, including Wheatley's "To S. M." and "Upon Being Brought" Images of Wheatley's poems at the University of Delaware. Biographical sketch from pbs.org Image courtesy of the Library of Congress exhibit on Wheatley. Works Available Online Poems ( at the University of Oregon) Poems at the Schomburg Center for African American Women Writers Poems at Documenting the American South Comments to D. Campbell

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