| Poems of Phillis Wheatley Revised, Enlarg Edition Contributor(s): Wheatley, Phillis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807842451 ISBN-13: 9780807842454 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1988 Annotation: For the last twenty years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.1 |
| LCCN: 88-23280 |
| Lexile Measure: 1330 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.94" W x 9.01" (0.84 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This new edition has been extensively revised in light of Wheatley scholarship since its publication. It has been expanded to include all of the fifty-six poems and twenty-two letters now known to be by Wheatley, the significant variants of the poems, and the four Proposals for publication of her works, all of them annotated. This edition contains the recently discovered poem "Ocean," new information about Wheatley's library (including a southern connection), a more accurate reading of a letter central to understanding the response to her 1772 Proposals, new variants of two poems, and a new reading of her George Washington poem. By going back to the original manuscripts (and to first printings when the manuscripts are not extant), Mason has provided the fullest and most accurate edition of Wheatley's poems and letters yet produced. The new index and bibliography assure the volume's usefulness for the scholar, the student, and the general reader. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wheatley, Phillis: - Julian D. Mason Jr. is emeritus professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte |