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Author:

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 author.

Title:

The writings of Phillis Wheatley / edited by Vincent Carretta.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

lix, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Poetry.
Wheatley, Phillis,--1753-1784.--Correspondence.
Poets, American--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Correspondence.
African American women poets--Correspondence.
African American poets--Correspondence.

Other Authors:

Carretta, Vincent, editor,

Other Titles:

Works

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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." -- Jacket flap.

ISBN:

0198834993
9780198834991

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1088308849

LCCN:

2018959367

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)