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Phillis Wheatley: Poems Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Consider other poets who documented aspects of the American Revolution, such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Consider reading Wheatley as the beginning of the tradition of Black poetry in America, setting her in the context of such later writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and Eve Ewing.

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