Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical EssaysTwelve critical essays sketch the tradition of black poets in the U. S. from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the black rage of the 1970's. Separate critiques are devoted to the work of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Melvin B. Tolson, Robert Hayden, and Imamu Amiri Baraka. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The New Negro Poet in the Twenties | 18 |
The Black Aesthetic in the Thirties Forties and Fifties | 34 |
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| Title | Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays Volume 106 of A Spectrum book: Twentieth century views Prentice Hall International Series in Systems and Control En Spectrum book Volume 106 of Twentieth century views, ISSN 0496-6058 |
| Editor | Donald B. Gibson |
| Compiled by | Donald B. Gibson |
| Publisher | Prentice-Hall, 1973 |
| ISBN | 013588392X, 9780135883921 |
| Length | 181 pages |
| Subjects | › Poetry / General |
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