Phillis Wheatley

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Herausgeber: Mason, Julian D Jr.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 known to be by Wheatley, the significant variants of the poems, and the four Proposals for publication of her works, all of them annotated. This edition contains the recently discovered poem "Ocean," new information about Wheatley's library (including a southern connection), a more accurate reading of a letter central to understanding the response to her 1772 Proposals, new variants of two poems, and a new reading of her George Washington poem. By going back to the original manuscripts (and to first printings when the manuscripts are not extant), Mason has provided the fullest and most accurate edition of Wheatley's poems and letters yet produced. The new index and bibliography assure the volume's usefulness for the scholar, the student, and the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Revised and Enlarged Edition, with an additional poem
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780807842454
• ISBN-10: 0807842451
• Artikelnr.: 22322749

Autorenporträt

Phillis Wheatley (1753-84) was the first African American to publish a book of poetry. Taking her name from the slave ship, The Phillis, that brought her to Massachusetts and the well-to-do Wheatley family whose property she became, Phillis showed such a natural aptitude for language that her owners eventually granted her her freedom. In 1772, she was summoned to court to defend the ownership of her own words, since many believed it impossible for an African-American slave to write poetry of such high quality. The following year, however, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published, to great acclaim.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication To the Public Preface Mr. Wheatley's Letter to the Publisher Poems: To Maecenas On virtue On being brought from Africa to America To the University of Cambridge
in New England To the Kings's Most Excellent Majesty On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell On the Death of the Rev. George Whitfield On the Death of a Young Lady of five years of age On the Death of a Young Gentleman To a Lady
on the Death of her Husband Goliath of Gath Thoughts on the Works of Providence To a Lady
on the Death of three Relationships To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady Hymn of the Morning Hymn of the Evening Isaiah-63rd Chap. 1st and 8th Verses On Recollection On Imagination A Funeral Poem on the Death Of C.E.
an Infant of twelve months To Captain H-----D To the Right Honorable William
Earl of Dartmouth Ode to Neptune
on Mrs. W----'s Voyage to England To a Lady
on her coming to North America with her Son
for the Recovery of her Health To a Lady
on her remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane
in North Carolina To a Lady and her Children
on the Death of her Son and their Brother To a Gentleman and Lady
on the Death of the Lady's Brother and sister
and a Child of the name of Avis
aged one year On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall To a Gentleman
on his voyage to Great Britain
for the Recovery of his Health To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory
on reading his Sermons on Daily Devotion
in which that Duty is recommended and assisted On the Death of J.C.
an Infant A Hymn to Humanity To the Hon. T.H.
Esq.
on the Death of his Daughter Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo To S.M.
a young African Painter
on seeing his Works To his Honor the Lieutenant Governor
on the Death of his Lady A Farewell to America A Rebus Answer to the Rebus Memoir