Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics [electronic resource] /
Loscocco, P.author.
Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Textual Note; Prologue: "the humble Afric muse's seat"; 1 Conspiracy Theory: "Britannia's distant shore"; Miltonic Wheatley; Metropolitan bogey; The Wheatleyan moment; 2 Authority and Challenge: "Where shall a sov'reign remedy be found?"; "While bright Aurora purples o'er the main"; "An intrinsic ardor prompts to write"; "My sympathizing verse"; 3 Wheatley's Fanciful Sublime: "What songs should rise!"; "Let thy first thoughts be praises"; "The pow'r enthron'd / In ev'ry breast"
"Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies"Epilogue; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—History and criticism.
America—Literatures.
British literature.
Sociology.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary History.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.