How does Jeffers’s poem speak back to the note and its historic and current significance?
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Age of Phillis
Analyze Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s poem “HOW PHILLIS WHEATLEY MIGHT HAVE OBTAINED THE APPROVAL OF EIGHTEEN PROMINENT WHITE MEN OF BOSTON TO PUBLISH HER BOOK OF POETRY” and its relationship to the note “To the PUBLICK” published in Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. How does Jeffers’s poem speak back to the note and its historic and current significance?
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