Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Paperback)

from librarycatnip

I surprised myself by liking this one. I like her iambic pentameter, and her use of heroic couplets, and when she chooses not to do these things. Her poems are sprinkled throughout with mythological allusions, and, frankly, read more like renaissance poetry to me than 18th C. And I like renaissan...

from raselyem7

I surprised myself by liking this one. I like her iambic pentameter, and her use of heroic couplets, and when she chooses not to do these things. Her poems are sprinkled throughout with mythological allusions, and, frankly, read more like renaissance poetry to me than 18th C. And I like renaissan...

from dasam

Derivative but all American poetry was thenThe poems of Wheatley are as good as anything being written in the colonies at the time, and no worse than much British poetry of the 18th Century written by the average poet. That she was a slave and English her second language makes the quality if her ...