Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects
originally published:
London : Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston
1773
We offered this copy of the first edition, bound in contemporary full calf, in our Catalog 131.
awards:
- First Book(1773)
- Blockson101(1773)
reference info
bio notes:
died: 12/5/1784
born as: Phillis Wheatley
The first black woman poet and, after Anne Bradstreet, the second woman poet of note in the United States. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
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