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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
The parallel development of German Romanticism also produced Christian religious poetry by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Clemens Brentano, as well as the rediscovery and publication of ancient and Medieval religious poetry by linguists and antiquarians like Baron Joseph von Laßberg, Friedrich Blume, and Johann Martin Lappenberg.
Luise Hensel (1798–1876), German religious writer and poet; Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet; Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), English children's writer and poet; Margaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and translator; Mary Howitt (1799–1888), English poet and children's writer; Abby B. Hyde (1799–1872), American ...
Denise Levertov wrote many poems with religious themes throughout her career. These poems range from religious imagery to implied metaphors of religion. One particular theme was developed progressively throughout her poetry. This was the pilgrimage/spiritual journey of Levertov towards the deep spiritual understanding and truth in her last poems.
In fact, she asked white women to help support the black liberation movement by reminding white women of their common womanhood to African American women. [4] Harper's dedication to advocating for civil and women's rights make the female and womanhood a basic concern in her poems. [ 11 ]
In 1926, while Cuney was still a student at Lincoln University, his poem "No Images" won first prize in a competition sponsored by Opportunity magazine. The poem poignantly portrays a black woman's internalization of European beauty standards. It has been widely anthologized and is considered a minor classic of the New Negro Movement. [3]
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
Annie Johnson Flint was born on 25 December 1866 in a small town Vineland, New Jersey.Her father was of English descent, and her mother was Scottish. [3] She lost both parents in her early childhood.