Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley
Title page and frontispiece of the 1st edition
AuthorPhillis Wheatley
LanguageEnglish[1]
Subjectvarious
PublisherA. Bell, Aldgate, London[2]
Publication date
1 September 1773
Publication placeEngland
Pages124
TextPoems 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]

  1. ^ Phillis Wheatley, Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. British Library
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Phillis Wheatley: America's second Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates, Basic Civitas Books, 2003, p. 5.