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"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. . . . It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry." -Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, pu

Romanticism. --- American literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Wheatley, Phillis, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Peters, Phillis Wheatley, --- Peters, Phillis, --- Wheatley, Phyllis, --- Wheatley, Phillis --- Criticism and interpretation --- Influence --- History and criticism

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The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work, let alone influence Romantic-period giants like Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson once declared that "the compositions published under her name are below dignity of criticism." In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature h

American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Wheatley, Phillis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Peters, Phillis Wheatley, --- Peters, Phillis, --- Wheatley, Phyllis,