An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes
Author : Newman Ivey White
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 1924
Category : African Americans
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Author : Newman Ivey White
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 1924
Category : African Americans
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Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1775411672
The work of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) inspired and encouraged the artists of the Harlem Renaissance,a movement in which he himself was an important figure. Johnson was active in almost every aspect of American civil life and became one of the first African-American professors at New York University. He is best remembered for his writing, which questions, celebrates and commemorates his experience as an African-American.
Author : Countee Cullen
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1927
Category : African Americans
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"For this anthology, Cullen selected the work of thirty-eight poets to, as he put it, "bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse." The collection includes Paul Laurence Dunbar, often credited as the first Black poet to make a deep and lasting impression on the literary world; James Weldon Johnson, the author of what is referred to now as the Black National Anthem; W. E. B. Du Bois; Jessie Faucet; Sterling A. Brown; Arna Bontemps; Langston Hughes and Cullen's own work. The poets were all known within the literary world and widely published. Each poem is accompanied by autobiographical notes, with the exception of three. The decorations in this book are by African American painter and graphic artist, Aaron Douglas"--J. Willard Marriott Library blog, viewed June 3, 2022.
Author : James G. Basker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300091729
"This volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than two hundred and fifty poets, both famous and unknown, the book charts the emergence of slavery as part of the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. The book includes: poems by forty women, ranging from abolitionists Hannah More and Mary Robinson to Frances Seymour, the Countess of Herford; works by more than twenty African or African American poets, including familiar names (Phillis Wheatley), intriguing figures (Afro-Dutch Latin scholar Johannes Capitein), and newly rediscovered black poets (an anonymous veteran of the Revolutionary War); and poetry by such canonical writers as Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Boswell, Burns, Wordsworth, and Coleridge." "The poems speak of the themes of slavery: capture, torture, endurance, rebellion, thwarted romances, and spiritual longing. They also raise intriguing questions about the contradications between cultural attitudes and public policy of the time. Writers such as these, suggests editor James Basker, were not complicit in the imperial project or indifferent about slavery but actually laid the groundwork for the political changes that would follow."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Newman Ivey White
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1969
Category : American poetry
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Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0820334316
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Author : Thomas W. Talley
Publisher : New York Macmillan 1922.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1922
Category : African Americans
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A collection of African American songs and rhymes, some of which in their original African language followed by translations, all of which concluded with an essay not only describing the content and the manner in which the songs and rhymes were told, sung and danced to, but also the effect they had on the minds of African Americans living through the days of slavery and following until 1922.
Author : Arna Wendell Bontemps
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1969
Category : American poetry
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Author : Bessie Graham
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Best books
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