Bibliographies

Choucair, Mona M. "Phillis Wheatley." In African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source-book, edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson, pp. 463-68. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2000.

Surveys Wheatley's major works and the most important pieces of criticism and biography on Wheatley from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.

Robinson, William H. Phillis Wheatley: A Bio-Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981, 166 p.

Provides a bibliography of criticism and writing on Wheatley, with a short biography.

Biography

DuBois, Shirley Graham. The Story of Phillis Wheatley. New York: J. Messner, 1949, 176 p.

Offers a biography of Wheatley written by African-American playwright and wife of W. E. B. DuBois.

Criticism

Brawley, Benjamin. "Phillis Wheatley." In The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States, 3rd ed., pp. 15-37. New York: AMS Press, 1971.

Critiques Wheatley's poetry, noting the detrimental influence of neoclassical English poets, and asserts her importance to American literary history.

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