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| Named Person: | Phillis Wheatley; Phillis Wheatley |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Phillis Wheatley; Julian D Mason, Jr. |
| OCLC Number: | 1160595051 |
| Description: | ℓviii, 113 p. : facsims ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Introduction -- The reputation of Phillis Wheatley, poet -- A note on the text -- Acknowledgments -- Part one: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral -- To Maecenas -- On virtue -- To the University of Cambridge, in New England -- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty,1768 -- On being brought from Africa to America -- On the death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769 -- On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 -- On the death of a young lady of five years of age -- On the death of young gentleman -- To a lady on the death of her husband -- Goliath of Gath -- Thoughts on the works of Providence -- To a lady on the death of three relations -- To a clergyman on the death of his lady -- An Hymn to the morning -- An Hymn to the evening -- Isaiah lxiii. 1-8 -- On recollection -- On imagination -- A funeral poem on the death of C.E. an infant of twelve months -- To Captain H_____d, of the 65th Regiment -- To the RIght Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, his majesty's principal secretary of state for North America, etc -- Ode to Neptune -- To a lady on her coming to North America with her son, for the recovery of her health -- To a lady on her remarkable preservation in an hurricane in North Carolina -- To a lady and her children, on the death of her son and their brother -- To a gentleman and lady on the death of the lady's brother and sister, and a child of the name Avis, aged one year -- On the death of Dr. Samuel Marshall,1771 -- To a gentleman on his voyage to Great Britain for the recovery of his health -- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his sermons on daily devotion, in which that duty is recommended and assisted -- On the death of J.C. an infant -- An Hymn to humanity -- To the Honourable T.H. Esq.; on the death of his daughter -- Niobe in distress for her children slain by Apollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. and from a view of the painting of Mr. Richard Wilson -- To S.M. a young African painter, on seeing his works -- To his honour the Lieutenant Governor, on the death of his lady. March 24, 1773 -- A farewel to America -- A rebus, by I.B. -- An answer to the rebus, by the author of these poems -- Part two: Miscellaneous poems -- To the University of Cambridge, wrote in 1767 -- On the death of the Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1967 -- An elegiac poem on the death of George Whitefield -- An Ode of verses on the death of George Whitefield -- To Mrs. Leonard, on the death of her husband -- Recollection -- To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady -- To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq.; on the death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard -- An elegy, to Miss Mary Moorhead, on the death of her father, the Rev. Mr. John Moorhead -- [To a Gentleman of the Navy] -- The answer -- Philis's reply -- To his excellency General Washington -- An elegy to Dr. Samuel Cooper -- Liberty and peace, a poem -- To Mr. and Mrs. ______, On the death of their infant son -- On the capture of General Lee -- Appendix: Letters and proposal for a second book. |
| Responsibility: | edited with an introd. by Julian D. Mason, Jr. |
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