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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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Various Buildings Have Been Named In Her 

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Various Buildings Have Been Named In Her 

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The Worst Things In Life Comes Free To Us

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The Worst Things In Life Comes Free To Us

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After Mr. & Mrs. Wheatley both became known as deceased she married John Peters in 1788, a free black man who eventually abandoned her. Despite that incident, she continued writing, fewer than five new poems were published after her marriage. At the end of her life Wheatley was working as a servant, and she died in poverty on December 5th 1784 in Boston.

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Phillis was escorted by the Wheatleys’ son to London in May 1773. Her first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, where many of her poems first saw an actual print, was published there the same year. The personal qualities of Phillis Wheatley, even more than her literary talent, contributed greatly to her great social success in London. Unfortunately returned to Boston in September because of the illness o she f her mistress. At the desire of friends she had made in England, she was soon freed.

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Wheatley usually avoided the topic of slavery in her poetry, however, her best-known work, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” which was written in 1768, contains a mild rebuke toward a few white readers: “Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain / May be refined, and join th’ angelic train.” Other notable poems of Phillis Wheatley includes “To the University of Cambridge, in New England” which was written in 1767, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty” which was written in 1768, and “On the Death of Rev. Dr. Sewall” written in 1769.

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Wheatley’s first poem to appear in print was “On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin” in the year of 1767, but at this time she was not widely known until the publication of “An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine…George Whitefield” in the year of 1770, a tribute to Whitefield, a popular preacher with whom she may have been personally acquainted with.

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In Wheatleys early teens she wrote beyond mature, as if it were conventional, verse that was stylistically influenced by Neoclassical poets such as the poetic Alexander Pope and was largely concerned with things such as morality, piety, and freedom.

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Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and taken to Boston on a slave ship in 1761 and purchased by a tailor named John Wheatley as a personal servant for his wife, Susanna. She was treated kindly in the household, almost as a third child. The Wheatleys soon recognized her talents and gave her privileges unusual for a slave, allowing her to do things such as learn to read and write.

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Phillis Wheatley was the first significant black poet in America, the former slave exemplified the superiority of the human spirit over the circumstances of birth. She was born on May 8th, in 1753 in West Africa.