Author:Phillis Wheatley
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first published African American poet whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature
Works[edit]
- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral 1773 (London: by A. Bell, for Cox and Berry, Boston)
- Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave 1834 (transcription project)
Individual poems[edit]
- "On being brought from Africa to America"
- "On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson"
- "On Virtue"
- "To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband"
- "To His Excellency, General Washington" written for Washington, 1775
- "An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and learned George Whitefield"
Works about Wheatley[edit]
- "Wheatley, Phillis," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Wheatley, Phillis," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
- "Wheatley, Phillis," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Wheatley, Phillis," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1927, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.