Download One Of Phillis Wheatley Famous Poems Background

Download One Of Phillis Wheatley Famous Poems Background. Phillis wheatley was an internationally known american poet of the late 18th century. Enslaved poet of colonial america:

There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul.

Phillis wheatley was the first african american to publish a book and the first american woman to seek to earn a living from her writings. Born in senegambia, west africa, in the 1753, phillis wheatley was sold into slavery at a young age and transported to north america, becoming one of the first black american literary voices and a prodigious writing talent. It is related that, upon the occasion of one of these visits, the weather changed during the absence of phillis; Was wheatley's restraint simply a matter of imitating the style of poets popular in that time?