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Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics

Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1137474777
ISBN13: 9781137474773
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Dec 12 2014
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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