Phillis Wheatley
Noun
Meaning
American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)
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In 1778, the African-American poet Jupiter Hammon wrote an ode to Wheatley (“An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley”).
Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley, New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Henry Louis Gates, Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's Second Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers, Basic Civitas Books, 2010, p. 5. Her first name is sometimes spelled "Phyllis".
ISBN 0-691-01639-9 *Engberg, Kathrynn Seidler, The Right to Write: The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley.
"Phillis Wheatley," In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books.