She is credited with the literary origin of two aesthetic lineages: the black American literary tradition and the black female literary tradition.
Her fame was not fully established until Margaretta M. Odell published a Memoir in her 1834 edition of this writer's Poems. Her first published verse, appearing in Philadelphia Magazine, contained a foreword attesting to her talents signed by 18 prominent Massachusetts men including John Hancock. Her first poem, an elegy on the death of the English evangelical preacher George Whitefield, was published when she was 17 years old. She is credited with the literary origin of two aesthetic lineages: the black American literary tradition and the black female literary tradition. FTP, who is this poet, best known for "On Being Brought from Africa to America"?
Her fame was not fully established until Margaretta M. Odell published a Memoir in her 1834 edition of this writer's Poems.
Phillis {Wheatley}