Research Catalog

Title

The poems of Phillis Wheatley : as they were originally published in London, 1773.

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Publication

Philadelphia, Pa. : Republished by R.R. and C.C. Wright, 1909.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wright, Richard R. (Richard Robert), 1878-1967
• Wright, Charlotte Crogman
• A.M.E. Book Concern, printer.

Description

88 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Portraits

Note

• "A.M.E. Book Concern, printers, Philadelphia."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Publishers' note -- First publishers' preface, 1773 -- Mr. Wheatley's letter -- To the public -- To Maecenas -- On virtue -- To the University of Cambridge, in New England -- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1768 -- On being brought from Africa -- On the death of Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769 -- On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 -- 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 relations -- To a clergyman on the death of his lady -- An hymn to the morning -- An hymn to the evening -- Isaiah lxiii 1-8 -- On recollection -- On imagination -- A funeral poem on the death of an infant aged twelve months -- To Captain H―D, of the 65th Regiment -- To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's secretary of state for North America, etc. -- Ode to Neptune -- 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 a lady on the death of the lady's brother and sister, and a child of the name of the name of Avis, aged one year -- On the death of Dr. Samuel Marshall, 1771 -- 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 -- An hymn to humanity -- To the Hon. T.H. Esq., on the death of his daughter -- Niobe in distress for her children slain by Apollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, book VI, and from a view of the painting of Mr. Richard Wilson -- To S.M. a young African painter, on seeing his works -- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the death of his lady, March 24, 1773 -- A farewell to America -- A rebus by I.B. -- An answer to I.B., by Phillis Wheatley.

Call Number

Sc 811-W (Wheatley, P. Poems of Phillis Wheatley. 1909)

LCCN

a 11001614

OCLC

• 1827091
• NYPGR1827091-B

Author

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784, author.

Title

The poems of Phillis Wheatley : as they were originally published in London, 1773.

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pa. : Republished by R.R. and C.C. Wright, 1909.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 811-W (accession no. B526292) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Wright, Richard R. (Richard Robert), 1878-1967, publisher.

Wright, Charlotte Crogman, publisher.

A.M.E. Book Concern, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 811-W (Wheatley, P. Poems of Phillis Wheatley. 1909)

NBHD (Wheatley, P. Poems of Phillis Wheatley)