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Style
Wheatley wrote in the formal poetic style that was popular in her
time,[11][12] often focusing on moral and religious subjects.
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Poems by Phillis Wheatley, "An Address to the Atheist" and
"An Address to the Deist," 1767
"To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" 1768
Poem by Phillis Wheatley, "Atheism," July 1769
"An Elegaic Poem On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and
eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned Mr. George Whitefield,"
1771
Poem by Phillis Wheatley, "A Poem of the Death of Charles Eliot ...," 1 September
1772
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
(title page and frontispiece of 1773 edition)
Poem by Phillis Wheatley, "To His Honor the Lieutenant Governor on the death of his Lady," 24 March
1773
"An Elegy, To Miss Mary Moorhead, On the Death of
her Father, The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead," 1773
"An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the Great Divine, the Reverend and the Learned Dr. Samuel
Cooper," 1784
"Liberty and Peace, A Poem" 1784
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (title page
and front matter of 1802 edition)
"To the Right and Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth ..."
from Poems of Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1802
edition)
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Published
in 1773
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and
Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834),
also by Margaretta Matilda Odell
The Reading Public Library
Young Adult Department
100 South Fifth St.
Reading, PA 19602