| Summary: | The article examines Phillis Wheatley Peters's poetry and her entry into London's literary community in the 1770s, focusing on her use of lyric poetry to challenge traditional notions and engage with themes of death, mourning, and imagination. It also discusses the racialized dimension of the British literary tradition in which she wrote, highlighting her transformative impact on the canon. Wheatley Peters's exploration of reason, revelation, and the tension between day and night in her poetry offers a nuanced perspective on the role of darkness in British literature, while her imagery of coercion and natural exigency depicts the demise of fancy by the force of imagination.
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