A poem acknowledges the casualties of a skirmish in this century with lines like “Oliver Armsden he was slain, which caused his friends much grief and pain.” In this century, a male poet addressed twenty-one numbered quatrains, each followed by a biblical citation, to a female poet in the hopes of encouraging her to return to Christianity. During this century, Lucy Terry wrote (15[1])the pioneering ballad “Bars Fight,” and another poet beseeched her patrons to “hear me (*) propitious, and defend my lays” in the poem “To Maecenas.” In this century, Jupiter Hammon penned an “address” to an author who wrote “'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land.” For 10 points, during which century did Phyllis Wheatley become the first African-American woman to earn a living as a writer? ■END■