Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Great Regulars: Even Thomas Jefferson showed disdain

for Phillis’ writing; in his Notes on the State of Virginia, he remarked, "Religion indeed has produced a Phyllis Whately [sic] but it could not produce a poet. The compositions published under her name are below the dignity of criticism."

from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: America's First African-American Poet--Phillis Wheatley

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