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  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    Phillis Wheatley
    In odes, elegies, devotional poems, and public addresses, Phillis Wheatley brings Christian belief and classical learning to questions of liberty, mortality, providence, authorship, and enslavement. The collection announced a formidable poetic intelligence within a culture that demanded proof of her humanity.Published in London in 1773, the volume was the first book published b...
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  • Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
    Phillis Wheatley
    A hush falls over a quiet parlour, candlelight flickering across a slender volume as each line stirs the heart to reflection. Here, verse becomes both sanctuary and challenge, its measured cadence weaving together faith, virtue, and the search for meaning in a world shaped by spiritual longing. These poems, composed in the eighteenth century, invite readers to contemplate the p...
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    18,78 €

  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Cram Edition)
    Phillis Wheatley
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Poems on various subjects, religious and moral pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Religious and Moral Poems' by Phillis Wheatley stands as a cornerstone of early American and African American literature. This collection showcases Wheatley’s profound explorati...
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  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    Phillis Wheatley
    Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley was the first book of poetry ever published by an African-American author. Phillis Wheatley’s deep familiarity with Latin literature and Christianity, combined with her African ancestry, provided her with a unique and inimitable view of poetry.She was kidnapped and brought over to America on a ship called The P...
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    22,37 €

  • Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings
    Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley - Complete Writings A powerful voice that changed literary historyDiscover the remarkable works of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American woman poet and one of the most important literary figures of the 18th century.Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and sold into slavery in Boston in 1761, Wheatley defied every expectation placed upon her. E...
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  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Esprios Classics)
    Phillis Wheatley
    Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. Phillis Wheatley broke barriers as...
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  • The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral, on which this volume is based. Wheatley’s poetry created a sensation throughout the English-speaking world, and the young poet read her work in aristocratic draw...
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  • Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author to be published. At the tender age of seven, Phillis had been brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the well-to-do Wheatley family. There, she threw herself into education, and soon she was devouring the classics and writing verse with whatever she had...
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  • The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley was a slave in Boston, the collection was published in England. Regarded for her mastery of classical poetic form, Phillis Wheatley earned praise from Voltaire and George Washington. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral has ...
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  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    Phillis Wheatley
    Born in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was bought by a wealthy Boston merchant named John Wheatley to serve as a servant to his family. They gave the young girl the name Phillis, after the ship that had transported her to America. The Wheatley family soon recognized her amazing i...
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    6,65 €

  • Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys’ 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin...
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  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    Phillis Wheatley
    This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased.Published in 1773, this collection brings together many of Wheatley’s finest writings addressed to figures of the day. She writes evocative verse to academic establishments, military officers and even the King of England, with other ...
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    11,16 €

  • Memoir & Poems of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    First published in 1834, this volume contains a collection of memoirs and poems by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784). Wheatley was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America, where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutore...
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    19,07 €

  • The Poems Of Phillis Wheatley, As They Were Originally Published In London, 1773 (1909)
    Phillis Wheatley
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,80 €

  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    Phillis Wheatley
    WE whose Names are under-written, do assure the World, that the POEMS specified in the following Page, were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa...-from the publisher’s affidavitProbably the first Black American writer, Phillis Wheatley had to travel to England to see her work...
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    18,56 €

  • The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
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    37,66 €

  • The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason’s The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This new edition has been extensively revised in light of Wheatley scholarship since its publication. It has been expanded to include all of the fifty-six poems and twenty-two letters now k...
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    51,21 €