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  2. Jan 20, 2025Phillis Wheatley (born c. 1753, present-day Senegal?, West Africa—died December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) was the first Black woman to become a poet of note in the United States.. The girl who was to be named Phillis Wheatley was captured in West Africa and taken to Boston by slave traders in 1761. She was enslaved by a tailor, John Wheatley, and his wife, Susanna.
  3. African American literature is the body of literature written by Americans of African descent. Beginning in the pre-Revolutionary War period, African American writers have engaged in a creative, if often contentious, dialogue with American letters. The result is a literature rich in expressive subtlety and social insight, offering illuminating assessments of American identities and history ...
  4. In Phillis Wheatley. Her first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in which many of her poems were first printed, was published there in 1773.Wheatley's literary talent and personal qualities contributed to her great social success in London. That she was enslaved also drew particular attention in the…
  5. Other articles where Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley is discussed: Phillis Wheatley: …Wheatley's writing were issued posthumously: Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1834)—in which Margaretta Matilda Odell, who claimed to be a collateral descendant of Susanna Wheatley, provides a short biography of Phillis Wheatley as a preface to a collection of Wheatley's poems—and Letters ...
  6. Feb 6, 2025American literature, the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States.. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a half, America was merely a group of colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard of the North American continent—colonies from which a few hardy souls ...
  7. Notable authors of American literature include: John Smith, who wrote some of its earliest works; Phillis Wheatley, who was the first Black woman to become a poet of note in the United States; Edgar Allan Poe, a standout of the Romantic era; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a celebrated poet; Emily Dickinson, a woman who wrote poetry at a time when the field was largely dominated by men; Mark Twain ...
  8. This is a list of notable African American writers ordered alphabetically by surname. The term writers is here broadly defined to include philosophers, critics, journalists, sociologists, and historians as well as poets and novelists. (See also African American literature.)
  9. Although Phillis Wheatley continued to write, few publishers were willing to take her work, and she was unable to support herself with her poems. Phillis Wheatley died on December 5, 1784. Her contributions to American literature highlighted the importance and benefit of educational opportunities for African Americans, helping to further the ...
  10. The history of American literature can be divided into several distinct periods. Each has its own unique characteristics, notable authors, and representative works. ... Phillis Wheatley, ... Romanticism as a worldview took hold in western Europe in the late 18th century, and American writers embraced it in the early 19th century. Edgar Allan Poe.
  11. Jan 13, 2025Western literature, history of literatures in the languages of the Indo-European family, along with a small number of other languages whose cultures became closely associated with the West, from ancient times to the present.. Diverse as they are, European literatures, like European languages, are parts of a common heritage. Greek, Latin, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic, Celtic, and Romance ...

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