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“To His Excellency General Washington” is included in The Collected Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1989), available from Oxford University Press.
Another influential poem about a Revolutionary War hero is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride,” which can be found in many poetry anthologies, as well as in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (2000) from the Library of America.
African-American poet Robert Hayden expresses his mixed emotions about Wheatley in his poem entitled “Letter for Phillis Wheatley,” which can be...
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