 Title page and frontispiece of the 1st edition | |
| Author | Phillis Wheatley |
|---|---|
| Language | English[1] |
| Subject | various |
| Publisher | A. Bell, Aldgate, London[2] |
Publication date | 1 September 1773 |
| Publication place | England |
| Pages | 124 |
| Text | Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley at Wikisource |
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.[3]
- ^ Phillis Wheatley, Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. British Library
- ^ Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley. London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-street, Boston, 1773
- ^ Phillis Wheatley: America's second Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates, Basic Civitas Books, 2003, p. 5.