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Born in May 8, 1753 / Died in December 5, 1784 / Senegal / English

Bibliography

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Books

  • An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of that Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield ... (Boston: Printed & sold by Ezekiel Russell & by John Boyles, 1770); republished in Heaven the Residence of Saints, by Ebenezer Pemberton (London: Printed for E. & C. Dilly, 1771).
  • Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston (London: Printed for Archibald Bell & sold in Boston by Cox & Berry, 1773; Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1786).
  • An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of that Great Divine, The Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper (Boston: Printed & sold by E. Russell, 1784).
  • Liberty and Peace, A Poem (Boston: Printed by Warden & Russell, 1784).
Collections
  • Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley. Containing Her complete Poetical Works, Numerous Letters and a complete Biography of This Famous Poet of a Century and a Half Ago, edited by G. Herbert Renfro (Washington, D.C.: A. Jenkins, 1916).
  • The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, Edited with an Introduction and Notes, edited by Charlotte Ruth Wright (Philadelphia: The Wrights, 1930).
  • The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, edited by Julian D. Mason, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966).
Letters
  • Charles Deane, ed., Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro-Slave Poet of Boston (Boston: Privately printed, 1864).
  • Carter G. Woodson, ed., The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis: 1800-1860 (Washington, D.C., 1926): xvi-xxi.