Author:Phillis Wheatley

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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753 – 1784)

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first published African American poet whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature

Phillis Wheatley

Works

• 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

• "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

Works about Wheatley

• "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)