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African-American poets : Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B. Tolson / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern critical viewsPublication details: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [(c)2003.Description: vii, 335 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0791063321
  • 9780791063323
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS310.B566.A375 2003
  • PS310.N4.B655.A375 2003
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Contents:
Introduction / Harold Bloom ; Preacherly text: African American poetry and vernacular performance / Marcellus Blount ; D.H. Lawrence and black writers / Leo Hamalian ; Introduction to the poems of Phillis Wheatley / Julian D. Mason, Jr.-- Slave's subtle war: Phillis Wheatley's use of biblical myth and symbol / Sondra O'Neale ; "Let me make the songs for the people": a study of Frances Watkins Harper's poetry / Patricia Liggins Hill ; Paul Dunbar and the mask of dialect / John Keeling ; Paul Laurence Dunbar: master player in a fixed game / Ralph Story ; Weapon of my song: the poetry of James Weldon Johnson / Richard A. Long ; Claude McKay's romanticism / Geta J. LeSeur ; Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance / George B. Hutchinson ; New Negro poet and the Nachal man: Sterling Brown's folk odyssey / John S. Wright ; Jazz, realism, and the modernist lyric: the poetry of Langston Hughes / Anita Patterson ; "Singing man who must be reckoned with": private desire and public responsibility in the poetry of Counte Cullen / Peter Powers ; Dual reality: echoes of Blake's tiger in Cullen's heritage / Ronald E. Sheasby ; Evolution of style in the poetry of Melvin B. Tolson / Mariann B. Russell ; Hamlet rives us: the sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson / Gary Smith.
Summary: "Examines the early history of African-American poetry and its place in the American literary consciousness"--Page {4. of cover.
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Introduction / Harold Bloom ; Preacherly text: African American poetry and vernacular performance / Marcellus Blount ; D.H. Lawrence and black writers / Leo Hamalian ; Introduction to the poems of Phillis Wheatley / Julian D. Mason, Jr.-- Slave's subtle war: Phillis Wheatley's use of biblical myth and symbol / Sondra O'Neale ; "Let me make the songs for the people": a study of Frances Watkins Harper's poetry / Patricia Liggins Hill ; Paul Dunbar and the mask of dialect / John Keeling ; Paul Laurence Dunbar: master player in a fixed game / Ralph Story ; Weapon of my song: the poetry of James Weldon Johnson / Richard A. Long ; Claude McKay's romanticism / Geta J. LeSeur ; Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance / George B. Hutchinson ; New Negro poet and the Nachal man: Sterling Brown's folk odyssey / John S. Wright ; Jazz, realism, and the modernist lyric: the poetry of Langston Hughes / Anita Patterson ; "Singing man who must be reckoned with": private desire and public responsibility in the poetry of Counte Cullen / Peter Powers ; Dual reality: echoes of Blake's tiger in Cullen's heritage / Ronald E. Sheasby ; Evolution of style in the poetry of Melvin B. Tolson / Mariann B. Russell ; Hamlet rives us: the sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson / Gary Smith.

"Examines the early history of African-American poetry and its place in the American literary consciousness"--Page {4. of cover.

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