Complete Writings: Penguin Publishing Group
Autor Phillis Wheatley Editat de Vincent Carrettaen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2001
Considerăm că volumul Complete Writings reprezintă o resursă fundamentală pentru studenții de la facultățile de litere, cercetătorii istoriei sclaviei și practicienii din domeniul studiilor culturale. Această ediție publicată de Penguin Publishing Group nu este doar o simplă antologie, ci o recuperare istorică documentată a primei voci afro-americane care a publicat un volum de poezie în limba engleză. Merită menționat că editorul Vincent Carretta a realizat o structură riguroasă, integrând nu doar poemele consacrate, ci și scrisorile autoarei și variantele textuale care permit o analiză comparativă a evoluției sale stilistice.
Putem afirma că lucrarea se distinge prin contextul oferit: de la celebra poezie „On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA” până la elegii complexe, textul dezvăluie o stăpânire remarcabilă a canoanelor clasice și religioase. Această ediție acoperă aceeași arie ca The Writings of Phillis Wheatley de Vincent Carretta, dar vine cu o abordare mai interdisciplinară prin includerea apendicelor care prezintă poeți contemporani precum Lucy Terry sau Jupiter Hammon, oferind astfel o panoramă a literaturii afro-americane timpurii. Față de edițiile mai vechi, precum Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, acest volum pune accent pe autenticitatea surselor și pe aparatul critic modern.
Structura volumului urmează o progresie logică, începând cu introducerea biografică și continuând cu corpusul principal de poezii din 1773. Notele explicative detaliate și secțiunea de „Suggestions for Further Reading” transformă cartea într-un instrument de lucru esențial pentru înțelegerea modului în care Phillis Wheatley a anticipat mișcarea romantică prin imaginația sa poetică și prin pledoariile subtile pentru libertate.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 014042430X
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 129 x 196 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Penguin Publishing Group
Seria Penguin Publishing Group
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această ediție oricărui cititor interesat de originile literaturii americane și de istoria rezilienței prin cultură. Prin parcurgerea acestor scrieri complete, câștigați o perspectivă autentică asupra modului în care o tânără sclavă a reușit să influențeze discursul intelectual al secolului al XVIII-lea. Este o piesă de bază pentru orice bibliotecă academică, oferind contextul necesar pentru a înțelege tranziția de la neoclasicism la romantism într-un cadru politic tensionat.
Despre autor
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) a fost prima persoană de origine africană care a publicat un volum de poezie în coloniile americane. Adusă în Boston pe o navă de sclavi în 1761, a fost educată de familia Wheatley în literatura clasică, geografie și teologie. Talentul său precoce i-a permis să publice primul poem la 14 ani. Editorul prezentei ediții, Vincent Carretta, este un reputat specialist și profesor care a dedicat ani de cercetare reconstrucției biografiei și operei sale, fiind și autorul unei biografii de referință despre Wheatley.
Descriere scurtă
Cuprins
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on Money
Acknowledgments
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
DEDICATION
PREFACE
Copy of a LETTER sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher.
To the PUBLICK.
To MAECENAS.
On VIRTUE.
To the University of CAMBRIDGE, in NEW-ENGLAND.
To the KING'S Most Excellent Majesty. 1768.
On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA.
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. SEWELL. 1769.
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. GEORGE WHITEFIELD. 1770.
On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age.
On the Death of a young Gentleman.
To a Lady on the Death of her Husband.
GOLIATH of GATH.
Thoughts on the WORKS of PROVIDENCE.
To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations.
To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady.
An HYMN to the MORNING.
An HYMN to the EVENING.
Isaiah lxiii. 1-8.
On RECOLLECTION.
On IMAGINATION.
A Funeral POEM on the Death of C.E. an Infant of Twelve Months.
To Captain H-D, of the 65th Regiment.
To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, Earl of DARTMOUTH, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c.
ODE to NEPTUNE. On Mrs. W-'s Voyage to England.
To a LADY on her coming to North-America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health.
To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina.
To a LADY and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother.
To a GENTLEMAN and LADY, on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, aged one Year.
On the Death of Dr. SAMUEL MARSHALL. 1771.
To a GENTLEMAN on his Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of his Health.
To the Rev. Dr. THOMAS AMORY on reading his Sermons on DAILY DEVOTION, in which that Duty is recommended and assisted.
On the Death of J.C. an Infant.
An HYMN to HUMANITY. To S.P.G. Esq;
To the Honourable T.H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter.
NIOBE in Distress for her children slain by APOLLO, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. and from a view of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson.
To S.M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works.
To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of his Lady. March 24, 1773.
A Farewel to AMERICA. To Mrs. S.W.
A REBUS, by I.B.
An ANSWER to the Rebus, by the Author of these POEMS.
Extant Poems Not Published in Poems on Various Subjects
Atheism.
An Address to the Atheist.
Deism.
An Address to the Deist - 1767 -
On Messrs Hussey and Coffin.
America
To the Hon.ble Commodore Hood on his Pardoning a Deserter
On Friendship
On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd by Richardson
Ocean
An ELEGY, To Miss. Mary Moorhead, on the DEATH of her Father, The Rev. Mr. JOHN MOORHEAD.
[To a Gentleman of the Navy.]
The Answer [By the Gentleman of the Navy.]
Philis's [sic] Reply to the Answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy.
To His Excellency General Washington.
On the Capture of General Lee
On the Death of General Wooster
To Mr. and Mrs.-, on the Death of their Infant Son
Prayer
An Elegy Sacred to the Memory of the Rev'd Samuel Cooper, D.D.
AN ELEGY, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THAT GREAT DIVINE, THE REVEREND AND LEARNED DR. SAMUEL COOPER.
LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM.
An ELEGY on Leaving-.
Variants of Poems Published in Poems on Various Subjects
To the University of Cambridge, wrote in 1767-
To The King's Most Excellent Majesty on his Repealing the American Stamp Act
On the Decease of the Revd Doctr Sewall [variant 1].
On the Death of the rev'd Dr. Sewell [variant 2].
On the Decease of the Rev'd Doctr Sewall, 1769. [variant 3].-
AN ELEGIAC POEM, On the DEATH of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of JESUS CHRIST, the late Reverend, and pious GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c &c. [variant 1].
An Ode of VERSES On the much-lamented Death of the REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon [variant 2].
To Mrs. Leonard, on the Death of her Husband.
On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall [variant 1].
On the Death of Doctor SAMUEL MARSHALL. [variant 2]
Recollection.
RECOLLECTION. To Miss A- M-.
To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the DEATH of his LADY.
A POEM ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES ELIOT, AGED 12 MONTHS [variant 1]
A Poem the death of Charles Eliot aged 12 months. [variant 2]
TO THE RIGHT HONL. WILLIAM LEGGE, EARL OF DARTMOUTH [variant 1]
TO THE RIGHT HONL WILLIAM LEGGE, EARL OF DARTMOUTH [variant 2]
To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; On the Death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard.
To the Empire of America, Beneath the Western Hemisphere. Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W. [variant 1]
FAREWELL TO AMERICA [variant 2]
Letters
To the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770).
To Abigail May? (November or December 1771).
To John Thornton (April 21, 1772).
To Arbour Tanner (May 19, 1772).
To Arbour Tanner (July 19, 1772).
To the Earl of Dartmouth (October 10, 1772).
To the Countess of Huntingdon (June 27, 1773).
To the Countess of Huntingdon (July 17, 1773).
To David Worcester (October 18, 1773).
To Obour Tanner (October 30, 1773).
To John Thornton (December 1, 1773).
To the Reverend Samuel Hopkins (February 9, 1774).
To Samson Occom (February 11, 1774).
To Obour Tanner (March 21, 1774).
To John Thornton (March 29, 1774).
To Obour Tanner (May 6, 1774).
To the Reverend Samuel Hopkins (May 6, 1774).
To John Thornton (October 30, 1774).
To George Washington (October 26, 1775).
To Obour Tanner (May 29, 1778).
To Mary Wooster (July 15, 1778).
To Obour Tanner (May 10, 1779).
Variant Letters
To the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770).
To the Earl of Dartmouth (June 3, 1773).
Proposals for Volumes of Poetry
Proposal for Printing by Subscription (February 29, 1772).
Proposals (April 16, 1773)
Proposals (October 30, 1779).
Wheatley's Final Proposal (September 1784).
Notes
Appendix A: Possible Wheatley variant of "Hymn to Humanity"; Possible new Phillis Wheatley poem, "The Voice of Freedom"
Appendix B: Lucy Terry Prince: Bars Fight.
Appendix C: Jupiter Hammon: AN Evening THOUGHT. SALVATION BY CHRIST, WITH PENETENTIAL CRIES.; AN ADDRESS to Miss PHILLIS WHEATLY [sic]; "A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death"; A DIALOGUE ENTITLEDD the KIND MASTER and DUTIFUL SERVANT.
Appendix D: Francis Williams: An ODE.
Recenzii
"Vincent Carretta's edition of the works of Phillis Wheatley is the definitive collection of her work. Expertly edited, it is a masterpiece of textual scholarship. Every scholar and student seeking to understand Wheatley's life and work will want to obtain this book." --Henry Louis Gates
Notă biografică
Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of the Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, and Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings by Ottobah Cugoano.