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The writings of Phillis Wheatley

Title
The writings of Phillis Wheatley [electronic resource] / edited by Vincent Carretta.
Author
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Carretta, Vincent.
Description
1 online resource (lix, 226 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
"This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet . . . several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition was published in 2001. Of the fifty-seven poems, as well as their authoritative variants, forty-six were published during her lifetime. Versions of nine of them were printed before September 1773. Wheatley published thirty-eight works in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773). Only seven of her poems were printed between 1773 and her death in 1784. Eleven poems survive only in manuscript versions. This edition also includes all of Wheatley's extant prose writings, twenty-three letters and four subscription proposals. It includes as well the three known surviving letters written to Wheatley. Wheatley's writings are accompanied by an introduction to her life and times, as well as extensive textual and explanatory notes." --
Uniform Title
Works (Online)
Alternative Title
Works (Online)
Subject
  • Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Correspondence
  • African Americans > Poetry
  • Poets, American > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Correspondence
  • African American women poets > Correspondence
  • African American poets > Correspondence
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LCCN
2018959367
OCLC
ssj0002571086
Author
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
Title
The writings of Phillis Wheatley [electronic resource] / edited by Vincent Carretta.
Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Access
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Carretta, Vincent.
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