(LITERATURE AND POETRY) WHEATLEY PHILLIS A contemporary revi

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) WHEATLEY, PHILLIS. A contemporary review of the 1834 Boston, Light edition of "Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native of Africa and a Slave" in The Christian Register. Four pages, small folio, disbound; some irregularity at the spine where removed from a larger volume, but a fine, clean copy. Boston, 1834

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A two-paragraph review of Light''s "important new work on Wheatley." In part: "Many of our readers have probably heard of Phillis Wheatley, but few of them have seen a copy of the original edition of her poems . . . Her poems are, it must be confessed, in themselves no great additions to the world''s intellectual treasures, but regarded as the productions of a native African who enjoyed such slender advantages, they are remarkable . . . they are valuable as affording a proof of the capacity of the despised African race, against whom such inhuman and unchristian prejudices are cherished in our own country . . . "