| Description |
xl, 339 pages : portrait ; 17 cm. |
| Series |
The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers |
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Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. To Maecenas -- On virtue -- To the University of Cambridge, in New-England -- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1768 -- On being brought from Africa to America -- On the death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell 1769 -- On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770 -- On the death of a young lady of five years of age -- On the death of a young gentleman -- To a lady on the death of her husband -- Goliath of Gath -- Thoughts on the works of Providence -- To a lady on the death of three relations -- To a clerygman on the death of his lady -- An hymn to the morning -- An hymn to the evening -- Isaiah LXIII. 1-8 -- On recollection -- On imagination -- A funeral poem on the death of C.E. an infant of twelve months -- To Captain H---d, of the 65th Regiment -- To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America -- Ode to Neptune. On Mrs. W---'s voyage to England -- To a lady on her coming to North America with her son, for the recovery of her health -- To a lady on her remarkable preservation in an hurricane in North-Carolina -- To a lady and her children, on the death of her son and their brother -- To a gentleman and lady on the death of the lady's brother and sister, and a child of the name Avis, aged one year -- On the death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771-- To a gentleman on his voyage to Great-Britain for the recovery of his health -- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his sermons on daily devotion, in which that duty is recommended and assisted -- On the death of J.C. an infant -- An hymn to humanity. To S.P.G. Esq. -- To the Honourable T.H. Esq; on the death of his daughter -- Niobe in distress for her children slain by Apollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses , Book VI. And from a view of the painting of Mr. Richard Wilson -- To S.M. a young African painter, on seeing his works -- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the death of his lady. March 24, 1773 -- A farewel to America. To Mrs. S.W. -- A rebus, by I.B. -- An answer to the rebus, by the author of these poems. |
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Extant poems not included in the 1773 poems. Atheism -- An address to the deist -- On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin -- America -- To the Honble. Commodore Hood on his pardoning a deserter -- On friendship -- On the death of Mr. Snider murder'd by Richardson -- An elegy to Miss Mary Moorhead, on the death of her father, the Rev. Mr. John Moorhead -- To a gentleman of the Navy -- The answer [by the gentleman of the Navy] -- Phillis's reply to the answer -- To His Excellency General Washington -- On the capture of General Lee -- On the death of General Wooster -- To Mr. and Mrs. --- on the death of their infant son -- An elegy sacred to the memory of that great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper -- Liberty and peace -- An elegy on leaving ---. |
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Prose. Letters. To the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770) -- Madam [to Abigail May?] (November or December 1771) -- Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (April 21, 1772) -- to Abour Tanner, in Newport (May 19, 1772) -- to Arbour Tanner, in Newport (July 19, 1772) -- My Lord [Earl of Dartmouth] (October 10, 1772) -- Madam [the Countess of Huntingdon] (June 27, 1773) -- Madam [the Countess of Huntingdon] (July 17, 1773) -- Sir [David Wooster] (October 18, 1773) -- To Obour Tanner, in New Port (October 30, 1773) -- Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (December 1, 1773) -- [To the Rev. Samuel Hopkins] (February 9, 1774) -- Reverend and Honoured Sir [to Samson Occom] (February 11, 1774) -- to Miss Obour Tanner, Newport (March 21, 1774) -- Much Honoured Sir [John Thornton] (March 29, 1774) -- To Miss Obour Tanner, New Port, Rhode Island (May 6, 1774) -- Rev'd Sir [Samuel Hopkins] (May 6, 1774) -- Much Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (October 30, 1774) -- Sir [George Washington] (October 26, 1775) -- Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (May 29, 1778) -- Madam [Mary Wooster] (July 15, 1778) -- Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (May 10, 1779) -- Proposals for volumes. Proposals for printing by subscription (February 29, 1772) -- Proposals (October 30, 1779) -- Wheatley's final proposal (September 1784) -- Prayer : Sabbath - June 13, 1779. |
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Variant poems and letters. Poems. To the University of Cambridge, wrote in 1767 -- On Atheism [Variant I] -- On Atheism [Variant II] -- Deism -- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty on his repealing the American Stamp Act -- On the death of the Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1769 -- To Mrs. Leonard, on the death of her husband -- An Elegiac poem, on the death of -- George Whitefield [Variant I] -- An ode of verses on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield [Variant II] -- On the death of Doctor Samuel Marshall -- Recollection, to Miss A---, M--- -- To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady -- To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; on the death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard -- To the Right Honourable William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth -- To the Empire of America, beneath the Western Hemisphere. Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W. [Variant I] -- Farewell to America [Variant II] -- An elegy sacred to the memory of the Rev'd Samuel Cooper, D.D. -- On the death of J.C. an infant -- Letters. Most Notable Lady [the Countess of Huntingdon] (October 25, 1770 -- My Lord [Dartmouth] (June 3, 1773). |
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Phillis Wheatley's struggle for freedom in her poetry and prose / John C. Shields. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Poetry.
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Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Correspondence.
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Poets, American -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 -- Correspondence.
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African American poets -- Correspondence.
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| Indexed Term |
English poetry |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Shields, John C., 1944-
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| Added Title |
Works. 1988
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| ISBN |
0195052412 alkaline paper |
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9780195052411 alkaline paper |
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0195060857 paperback |
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9780195060850 paperback |
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0195052676 set |
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9780195052671 set |
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