SOURCE: "Phillis Wheatley, Americanization, the Sublime, and the Romance of America," Style, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 194-221.
In the following essay, Richards characterizes Wheatley's poetry as an attempt to acquire and wield authorial status within American society.
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