A review by mrspenningalovesbooks
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir by Phillis Wheatley

5.0

Beautiful poetry and a lovely memoir at the end, written by Wheatley’s great-nieces. What a legacy she left them, living a life filled with grand experienced, but also devastating trauma. Coming in a slave ship at 7, she writes poetry about life, death, faith, religion, and America/England/ Africa. Her poetry will be a beautiful addition to AP LIT as the first African-American poet to be published.

“Indulgent Muse! my groveling mind inspire, and fill me bosom with celestial fore.”


“Overwhelming sorrow now demands my song: From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung.”