For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's "The Poems of Phillis
Wheatley" (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and
letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This
new edition has been extensively revised in light of Wheatley
scholarship since its publication. It has been expanded to include
all of the fifty-six poems and twenty-two letters now known to be
by Wheatley, the significant variants of the poems, and the four
Proposals for publication of her works, all of them annotated.
This edition contains the recently discovered poem "Ocean," new
information about Wheatley's library (including a southern
connection), a more accurate reading of a letter central to
understanding the response to her 1772 Proposals, new variants of
two poems, and a new reading of her George Washington poem. By
going back to the original manuscripts (and to first printings when
the manuscripts are not extant), Mason has provided the fullest and
most accurate edition of Wheatley's poems and letters yet produced.
The new index and bibliography assure the volume's usefulness for
the scholar, the student, and the general reader.
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