Victory by Simile
Andrea Brady: Phillis Wheatley’s Evolution, 4 January 2024
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence
by David Waldstreicher.
Farrar, Straus, 480 pp., £24, March 2023,978 0 8090 9824 8 Show More
by David Waldstreicher.
Farrar, Straus, 480 pp., £24, March 2023,
“... puts it, ‘a highly visible expert on tyranny, liberty and slavery.’ In the Wheatley home on King Street, she had a front-row view of protests against the Stamp Act, whose repeal she celebrated in a poem. While her early works declare loyalty to the paternal King George, she later used parent-child metaphors to depict ... ”