African-American poetry of the nineteenth century : an anthology / [print] edited by Joan R. Sherman. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)1992. - 506 pages ; 24 cm.



George Moses Horton -- Noah Calwell Cannon -- Charles Lewis Reason -- Ann Plato -- Joshua McCarter Simpson -- James Monroe Whitfield -- Daniel Alexander Payne -- Alfred Gibbs Campbell -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Joseph Cephas Holly -- George Boyer Vashon -- Elymas Payson Rogers -- Adah Isaacs Menken -- James Madison Bell -- Charlotte L. Forten Grimke -- Alfred Islay Walden -- Albery Allson Whitman -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- John Willis Menard -- Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin -- Timothy Thomas Fortune -- James Edwin Campbell -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. -- George Clinton Rowe -- Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard -- Daniel Webster Davis -- Edward W. Williams -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- George Marion McClellan -- Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb -- Mary Weston Fordham -- Frank Barbour Coffin -- James Ephriam McGirt -- Samuel Alfred Beadle -- Priscilla Jane Thompson.

Afro-Americans of the nineteenth century are the invisible poets of our national literature. This anthology brings together 171 poems by 35 poets, from the best known to the unknown, in one volume.



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American poetry--African American authors.
African Americans--Poetry.
American poetry--19th century.

PS591 PS591.S553.A375 1992