Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics:
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1. Verfasser: Shields, John C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Knoxville University of Tennessee Press ©2010
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-135) and index
Before Wheatley: the imagination from Plato to Bruno -- Before Wheatley: the imagination from Bruno to William Billings -- Wheatley's "long poem" and subsequent considerations -- After Wheatley: in England, France, and Germany, excluding Kant -- Kant and Wheatley -- Wheatley and Coleridge -- Concluding remarks: is Wheatley the progenetrix of Romanticism? -- Postscript: what remains to be done
"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry."--Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 140 pages)
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