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Phillis Wheatley was an African-born American author who achieved international recognition as the first published Black woman poet in British North America. Enslaved and brought to Boston as a child, she received an education from the Wheatley family who enslaved her, mastering English, Latin, and...
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Thomas Gray was an English poet, scholar, and letter-writer who served as the Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is best remembered for his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," a meditative poem completed in 1750 and published in 1751 that established his literary rep...
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