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Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics

By:P. Loscocco
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137474773
eText ISBN:9781137470058
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.