Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Phillis Wheatley
- First Published: 1773
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: African Americans, Religion, God, Eighteenth century, Death or dying, Imagination, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Widows or widowers, Clergy, Patriotism
Form and Content
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is the collection of poems produced by a nineteen-year-old Colonial American slave, Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman ever to be published. The significance of this publication can be understood best in terms of the author’s identity and social position, and less by the poetry itself, which is largely imitative of the style and material that were popular at the time. Wheatley was brought as a captive from Senegambia (now Senegal and Gambia) to New England when she was approximately seven...
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