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“To read Wheatley is to understand the world she lived in. She wrote many odes, the great poetic genre of the period. She also wrote topical poems. Although young, she was an astute observer.” Read more...
Mark Peterson, Historian
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
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Willam Blake: Selected Poetry
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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry
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