Definition of Phillis wheatley

1. Noun. American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784).

Exact synonyms: Wheatley
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phillis Wheatley

Phillip
Phillipa
Phillipines
Phillipp
Phillips
Phillips' catheter
Phillips head
Phillips heads
Phillips screw
Phillips screwdriver
Phillips screwdrivers
Phillips screws
Phillipson
Phillipson's reflex
Phillis
Phillis Wheatley
Philly
Philly cheesesteak
Philly cheesesteaks
Philohela
Philohela minor
Philomachus
Philomachus pugnax
Philomena
Philophylla
Philopia casei
Phineas
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Phinehas
Phintias

Literary usage of Phillis wheatley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"NBHD The poems of phillis wheatley as Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By phillis wheatley. negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, ..."

2. A Short History of the American Negro by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1919)
"phillis wheatley.—The first Negro to achieve distinction in literature in America was Phillis Wheat- ley. This young woman was born in Africa, in Senegal, ..."

3. The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1865)
"phillis wheatley. BY L. MARIA CHILD. T)HILLIS WHEATLEY was born in Africa, and X brought to Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 1761, ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Brought to America, and sold into slavery, 17C1. DIED in Boston, Mass., 1784. POEMS. [Poems on Various Subjects, Religion* and Moral, by phillis wheatley, ..."

5. The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by Caroline May (1848)
"Let the candid decide which the chaplet should wear, The charms which destroy, or the charms which repair. phillis wheatley MAY be regarded as a literary ..."

6. The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the by John Wesley Cromwell (1914)
"This phenomenon was phillis wheatley who was brought to this country from Africa in 1761, when about seven years of age and sold in the streets of Boston as ..."

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