Sunday, January 19, 2025

Phillis Wheatley, the slave who won her freedom with poetry

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The life of poets is often tragic. Not only because of the sadness, happiness or melancholy that their verses evoke, but because poetry becomes, for them, a way of being on Earth and directing their actions without limits.

British Library cuts. Shelfmark: 992.a.34. 
Rober D z. 360 Press pen.

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) represents this unusual fate well.