African-American poets :  Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B. Tolson /  [print] 
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. 
 - Philadelphia :  Chelsea House Publishers,  (c)2003. 
 - vii, 335 pages ;  25 cm. 
 - Modern critical views .
 - Modern critical views. .
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<br/><br/> Preacherly text: African American poetry and vernacular performance /  D.H. Lawrence and black writers /  Introduction to the poems of Phillis Wheatley /  "Let me make the songs for the people": a study of Frances Watkins Harper's poetry /  Paul Dunbar and the mask of dialect /  Paul Laurence Dunbar: master player in a fixed game /  Weapon of my song: the poetry of James Weldon Johnson /  Claude McKay's romanticism /  Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance /  New Negro poet and the Nachal man: Sterling Brown's folk odyssey /  Jazz, realism, and the modernist lyric: the poetry of Langston Hughes /  "Singing man who must be reckoned with": private desire and public responsibility in the poetry of Counte Cullen /  Dual reality: echoes of Blake's tiger in Cullen's heritage /  Evolution of style in the poetry of Melvin B. Tolson /  Hamlet rives us: the sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson /  Harold Bloom --  Marcellus Blount --  Leo Hamalian --  Julian D. Mason, Jr.-- Slave's subtle war: Phillis Wheatley's use of biblical myth and symbol /  Sondra O'Neale --  Patricia Liggins Hill --  John Keeling --  Ralph Story --  Richard A. Long --  Geta J. LeSeur --  George B. Hutchinson --  John S. Wright --  Anita Patterson --  Peter Powers --  Ronald E. Sheasby --  Mariann B. Russell --  Gary Smith. 
<br/><br/> "Examines the early history of African-American poetry and its place in the American literary consciousness"--Page 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780791063323 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002006352 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.<br/>African Americans--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS310.B655.A375 2003 PS310