Author:Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley
(c. 1753 – 1784)

Portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed by some scholars to Scipio Moorhead

Works

• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral 1773 (London: by A. Bell, for Cox and Berry, Boston)
• Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave 1834

Individual poems

• "On being brought from Africa to America"
• "On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson"
• "On Virtue"
• "To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband"
• "To His Excellency, General Washington" written for Washington, 1775
• "An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and learned George Whitefield"

Works about Wheatley

• "Wheatley, Phillis," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Wheatley, Phillis," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
• "Wheatley, Phillis," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Wheatley, Phillis," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley" in Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923)