Greek Reporter3d
Phillis Wheatley: The First African-American Poet Knew Ancient Greek
Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...
The New York Times19d
A NEGRO SERVANT'S POEMS.; Phillis Wheatley First Edition In Sale of H.A. Smith Library.
which Anderson's will sell on Jan. 20. One of these rarities is a first edition of "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of ...
PBS8y
Letter to Reverend Samson Occum
In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old ... apparently led to a friendship with Occum, who was also a poet, and who later published an Indian hymnal. On February 11, 1774 ...
Stylist6y
The incredible true story of the captured poet who wrote her way to freedom
This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world ... She was taken aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in the British ...
The Canadian Press on MSN4mon
Biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley is winner of George Washington Prize
NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher's “The Odyssey of Phillis ...