The Poems of Phillis Wheatley - Softcover

Wheatley, Phillis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807842451 ISBN 13: 9780807842454

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Julian D. Mason Jr. is emeritus professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807842451
• ISBN 13: 9780807842454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258