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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
Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
by Virgil -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
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Paradise Lost
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The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson -
Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -
William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor)