African American Poetry
Poetry
African American poetry developed in a straight, if sometimes discontinuous, line from Phillis Wheatley. In 1855 Lucy Terry became the second African American poet when her Bars Fight appeared in Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts. However, her poetry was very different from Wheatley’s heroic couplets
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