UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley

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UAlbany Professor Wendy Roberts has discovered a new poem by Phillis Wheatley, the first Black person to publish a book of poems in America. "On the Death of Love Rotch" (1767) is now the earliest known elegy by Wheatley.

« UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley

Credit: Patrick Dodson

“On the Death of Love Rotch," a poem dated 1767 and attributed to Phillis Wheatley, appears in a Quaker commonplace book held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

« UAlbany Professor Finds New Poem by Famed Early American Poet Phillis Wheatley

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