DANCEST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Elegy, Aeneid, Phillis Wheatley
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27/03/17 first female poet and literary author she was born in england and received especially good education as a woman she was mother of eight children she processed her experience in her poems. Her texts were combined by her brother in law who published her texts without her knowing. The tenth muse lately sprung up in america : this collection is considered to be the first printed publication of poems written on american soil. Her poems gave insight into the psyche and daily life of a woman and mother in colonial society. She deals with fire disasters or the death of children and grandchildren. In the prologue to her collection of poetry, she talks about: a classical epic tradition a connection to virgil"s aeneid is made: so she invokes the roman national epic, the first two lines are virgulesque . So she talks about foundation in new time.
