Search Results for Phillis Wheatley Peters

...Michelle Levy This essay revisits the history of Phillis Wheatley Peters's “volume of manuscript poems &&.,” a collection of handwritten poems, which her husband, John Peters, advertised for its return in late 1784, just days after her death. Since no second volume of poems was published...

... of the eighteenth-century poets and redirect their impulses earthward. Yet spiritualist poetics refuse to be fully grounded and, in something of a bait-and-switch, the second half of the chapter drops Wordsworth in favor of another soaring trio of poets—Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, and Emily Dickinson...

..., “The Immaterial Manuscript Book,” turns to those paradoxical cases where the manuscript book no longer exists, or had only a brief, abortive existence, or has been made and remade according to the needs of its would-be creators. The lost manuscript book of Phillis Wheatley Peters's second volume of poems...

... and the revisions designed to promote the book. The layers of manuscript and printed texts make visible Stedman’s conscious deployment of literary and cultural allusion: not only does he refer to contemporary black celebri- ties such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, but he also, like Ligon, praises...