Category: Phillis Wheatley

J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur’s and Phillis Wheatley’s Views on British American Society For many people, the American colonies was a chance to start anew, as they sought to escape political oppression, to be able to practice their religion, or for new opportunities that had been denied to them back home. This was the case…

Review of Phillis Wheatley’s Poem ‘To the University of Cambridge, in New-England’ ‘To the University of Cambridge, in New-England’ is an early poem by Phyllis Whitley, the first black woman to publish poetry in English. In this poem, Whitley pleads with a group of new Harvard students to be good Christians and never forget the…

J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur’s and Phillis Wheatley’s Views on British American Society For many people, the American colonies was a chance to start anew, as they sought to escape political oppression, to be able to practice their religion, or for new opportunities that had been denied to them back home. This was the case…

Review of Phillis Wheatley’s Poem ‘To the University of Cambridge, in New-England’ ‘To the University of Cambridge, in New-England’ is an early poem by Phyllis Whitley, the first black woman to publish poetry in English. In this poem, Whitley pleads with a group of new Harvard students to be good Christians and never forget the…

Representation of Views of Society in British America in Poems of Phillis Wheatley and Crevecoeur In Crevecoeurs Letters from an American Farmer and the assigned poems of Phillis Wheatley, both authors use their unique backgrounds to discuss the complex and often opposing views of society in British America. Told from the perspective of a fictional…

Crevecoeur Versus Wheatley: Comparative Analysis of Poetry Freedom in British America Crevecoeur through the persona of James writes letters to an Englishman and describes what life is like in America. Phillis Wheatley, a slave who came to the colonies as a child, received an education from her Christian owners and began to write poems on…