Dec 28, 2009

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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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

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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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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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