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Phillis Wheatley

The first published African-American female poet (Wikipedia).

first African-American poet (1753–1784)

Born	c. 1753
Died	5 December 1784

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1996 — 21 editions

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The United States in Literature

by James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and 190 others
First published in 1952 — 12 editions
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral.

by Phillis Wheatley
First published in 1773 — 11 editions
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Poems of Phillis Wheatley: a native African and a slave.

by Phillis Wheatley
First published in 1835 — 10 editions

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Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience

by Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith, Edward Albee, Amos Bronson Alcott, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, and 158 others
First published in 1999 — 9 editions
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The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949

by Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Armand Lanusse, Pierre Dalcour, and 134 others
First published in 1949 — 8 editions
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

by Phillis Wheatley, John Wheatley, and Huntingdon, Selina Hastings Countess of First published in 1773 — 6 editions

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Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave: also, Poems by a slave

by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
First published in 1834 — 5 editions
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Life and works of Phillis Wheatley: containing her complete poetical works, numerous letters, and a complete biography of this famous poet of a century and a half ago

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1916 — 5 editions
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Poems of Phillis Wheatley

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 2012 — 5 editions

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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience

by Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey, Abigail Adams, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Donald Barthelme, Ann Beattie, Ambrose Bierce, and 119 others
First published in 1989 — 5 editions
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Women Who Wrote: Stories and Poems from Audacious Literary Mavens

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Gertrude Stein, Phillis Wheatley, Jude Mason, Chloe Dolandis, and 2 others First published in 2020 — 4 editions

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An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield: ... who made his exit from this transitory state, to dwell in the celestial realms of bliss, on Lord's-Day, 30th of September, 1770 ... at Newbury-Port, near Boston, in New-England. ...

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1770 — 4 editions

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An elegiac poem. On the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and learned George Whitefield: Who made his exit from this transitory state, to dwell in the celestial realms of bliss, on Sunday, 30th of September 1770 ... at Newbury-Port, near Boston, New-England. ...

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1770 — 4 editions

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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1773 — 3 editions

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Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave.

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1834 — 3 editions

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Poems of Phillis Wheatley, As They Were Originally Published in London 1773

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 2018 — 3 editions

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Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral and a Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave

by Phillis Wheatley and B.B. Thatcher First published in 2020 — 2 editions

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Poems

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 1966 — 2 editions

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Poems of Phillis Wheatley : With Letters and a Memoir : with Letters and a Memoir by: Phillis Wheatley

by Phillis Wheatley First published in 2023 — 2 editions

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first African-American poet (1753–1784)

Born	c. 1753
Died	5 December 1784

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OLID: OL588695A
BookBrainz: a9b53412-27f6-4549-9228-dae083744603
GoodReads: 159918
ISNI: 0000000121244897
Library of Congress Names: n50016726
LibraryThing: wheatleyphillis
LibriVox: 333
MusicBrainz: 37e5bb92-ed05-43c2-a02b-e415c9e4f352
Project Gutenberg: 227
VIAF: 24620908
Wikidata: Q257911
Inventaire.io: wd:Q257911

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