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1772 in poetry
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==Events==
* February 29, March 14 and April 18 - Susanna Wheatley attempts to get subscribers for a book of poems by her slave, Phillis Wheatley, by advertising in the ''Boston Censor'', but the effort fails, largely because not enough readers believe that a black person has enough talent to write poetry.
* September 12 - The Göttinger Hainbund of German poets is formed at a midnight ritual in an oaken grove.
* October 4 - Because many white people in colonial Massachusetts find it hard to believe that a black woman could have enough talent to write poetry, Phillis Wheatley is brought before a panel of eminent intellectuals in Boston who are gathered together to question her.〔Ellis Cashmore, review of ''The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature'', Nellie Y. McKay and Henry Louis Gates, eds., ''New Statesman'', April 25, 1997.〕〔''Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience'' by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah, Basic Civitas Books, 1999, page 1171.〕 The group includes John Erving, Reverend Charles Chauncey, John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of Massachusetts, his lieutenant governor, Andrew Oliver, the Rev. Mather Byles, Joseph Green, the Rev. Samuel Cooper, James Bowdoin and Samuel Mather. They conclude she has in fact written the poems ascribed to her and sign an attestation which is added to the preface to her book ''Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'' published in Aldgate, London in 1773 after printers in Boston refuse to publish the text.
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