TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom,Harold
AU  - 
TI  - African-American poets: Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B. Tolson 
T2  - Modern critical views
SN  - 9780791063323
AV  - PS310.B655.A375 2003 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Chelsea House Publishers
KW  - American poetry
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 1 (pages 305-310) and index; 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; 2; 2; b
N2  - "Examines the early history of African-American poetry and its place in the American literary consciousness"--Page {4. of cover
ER  -