In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the "Harlem Renaissance." The present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious ... Read More
In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the "Harlem Renaissance." The present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious ... Read More
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In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the "Harlem Renaissance." The present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to the 20th-century sensibilities of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Also here are works by George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Alberry Alston Whitman, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Mary Weston Fordham, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more. Attractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. It will be welcomed by students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.
Dover Original.
Details
Price: $6.00
Pages: 96
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Black History
Publication Date: 7th July 1997
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486296043
Format: Paperback
Age: 11-99
BISACs: POETRY / American / African American LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American
Table of Contents
Phillis Wheatley Peters On Being Brought From Africa to America An Hymn to the Evening George Moses Horton Liberty and Slavery Early Affection Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur Imploring to Be Resigned at Death "George Moses Horton, Myself" Joshua McCarter Simpson Away to Canada To the White People of America James Monroe Whitfield How Long? The Misanthropist Francis Ellen Watkins Harper Bury Me in a Free Land To the Union Savers of Cleveland From Moses: A Story of the Nile "Sir, We Would See Jesus" Learning to Read Songs for the People James Madison Bell From A Poem Entitled the Day and the War From An Anniversary Poem Entitled the Progress of Liberty Charlotte L. Forten Grimké Wordsworth Alfred Islay Walden Wish for an Overcoat Alberry Alston Whitman "From Not a Man, and Yet a Man" From Twasinta's Seminoles; or Rape of Florida Henrietta Cordelia Ray Robert G. Shaw Verses to My Heart's-Sister George Marion McClellan A September Night The Feet of Judas A January Dandelion "Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr." Frederick Douglass Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League The Don't-Care Negro Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard "They Are Coming?" Danel Webster Davis I Can Trust Aunt Chloe's Lullaby Mary Weston Fordham Atlanta Exposition Ode James Edwin Campbell Ol' Doc' Hyar Mors et Vita De Cunjah Man Sciplinin' Sister Brown James David Corrothers "De Black Cat Crossed His Luck" Paul Laurence Dunbar At the Closed Gate of Justice An Indignation Dinner James Weldon Johnson Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing O Black and Unknown Bards The White Witch Priscilla Jane Thompson The Muse's Favor Paul Laurence Dunbar Sympathy An Ante-Bellum Sermon We Wear the Mask When Malindy Sings The Haunted Oak The Poet Anne Spencer [Annie Bethel Scales Bannister] Dunbar White Things Letter to My Sister Claude McKay The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die Flame-Heart The Tropics in New York Enslaved Jean Toomer Georgia Dusk Her Lips Are Copper Wire Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Jazzonia "I, Too" Bound No'th Blues Mother to Son Countee Cullen Yet Do I Marvel "To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime" From the Dark Tower
In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the "Harlem Renaissance." The present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to the 20th-century sensibilities of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Also here are works by George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Alberry Alston Whitman, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Mary Weston Fordham, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more. Attractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. It will be welcomed by students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.
Dover Original.
Price: $6.00
Pages: 96
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Black History
Publication Date: 7th July 1997
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486296043
Format: Paperback
Age: 11-99
BISACs: POETRY / American / African American LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American
Phillis Wheatley Peters On Being Brought From Africa to America An Hymn to the Evening George Moses Horton Liberty and Slavery Early Affection Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur Imploring to Be Resigned at Death "George Moses Horton, Myself" Joshua McCarter Simpson Away to Canada To the White People of America James Monroe Whitfield How Long? The Misanthropist Francis Ellen Watkins Harper Bury Me in a Free Land To the Union Savers of Cleveland From Moses: A Story of the Nile "Sir, We Would See Jesus" Learning to Read Songs for the People James Madison Bell From A Poem Entitled the Day and the War From An Anniversary Poem Entitled the Progress of Liberty Charlotte L. Forten Grimké Wordsworth Alfred Islay Walden Wish for an Overcoat Alberry Alston Whitman "From Not a Man, and Yet a Man" From Twasinta's Seminoles; or Rape of Florida Henrietta Cordelia Ray Robert G. Shaw Verses to My Heart's-Sister George Marion McClellan A September Night The Feet of Judas A January Dandelion "Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr." Frederick Douglass Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League The Don't-Care Negro Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard "They Are Coming?" Danel Webster Davis I Can Trust Aunt Chloe's Lullaby Mary Weston Fordham Atlanta Exposition Ode James Edwin Campbell Ol' Doc' Hyar Mors et Vita De Cunjah Man Sciplinin' Sister Brown James David Corrothers "De Black Cat Crossed His Luck" Paul Laurence Dunbar At the Closed Gate of Justice An Indignation Dinner James Weldon Johnson Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing O Black and Unknown Bards The White Witch Priscilla Jane Thompson The Muse's Favor Paul Laurence Dunbar Sympathy An Ante-Bellum Sermon We Wear the Mask When Malindy Sings The Haunted Oak The Poet Anne Spencer [Annie Bethel Scales Bannister] Dunbar White Things Letter to My Sister Claude McKay The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die Flame-Heart The Tropics in New York Enslaved Jean Toomer Georgia Dusk Her Lips Are Copper Wire Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Jazzonia "I, Too" Bound No'th Blues Mother to Son Countee Cullen Yet Do I Marvel "To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime" From the Dark Tower
