African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An AnthologyJoan R. Sherman University of Illinois Press, 1992 - 506 pagine In this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the "invisible" legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribed from first editions and are annotated in detail. |
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... freedom and civil rights . The best of this aggressive poetry resounds with anguish and fury of a dream deferred ; with lightning blasts of righteous indignation or bitter mockery ; with threats of bloody vengeance and a nation's doom ...
... freedom and civil rights . The best of this aggressive poetry resounds with anguish and fury of a dream deferred ; with lightning blasts of righteous indignation or bitter mockery ; with threats of bloody vengeance and a nation's doom ...
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... freedom , not in some kingdom after death but now , in the North or Canada . The folk qualities of slave narratives appear to a lesser degree in a few homespun verses by the slave poet Horton and the former slave Walden ; and their ...
... freedom , not in some kingdom after death but now , in the North or Canada . The folk qualities of slave narratives appear to a lesser degree in a few homespun verses by the slave poet Horton and the former slave Walden ; and their ...
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... freedom had bonded black writers of North and South , free blacks and slaves , to each other and to like - minded white Americans . Freedom imposed uncertainties about racial identity and the role of blacks in America's future ...
... freedom had bonded black writers of North and South , free blacks and slaves , to each other and to like - minded white Americans . Freedom imposed uncertainties about racial identity and the role of blacks in America's future ...
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... freedom had ended forty years previously , and dramatizes the defeat of valiant men of color by treacherous whites . Similarly , Whitman's " The Octoroon " ( 1901 ) cel- ebrates an honorable interracial love affair doomed by prejudice ...
... freedom had ended forty years previously , and dramatizes the defeat of valiant men of color by treacherous whites . Similarly , Whitman's " The Octoroon " ( 1901 ) cel- ebrates an honorable interracial love affair doomed by prejudice ...
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ADAH ISAACS MENKEN African-American ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN ALEXANDER PAYNE beauty blood born brave breath chains co'n Colored DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS dark dear death e'en earth ELLEN WATKINS HARPER ELYMAS ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS eyes fear FORTEN FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS freedom GEORGE BOYER VASHON GEORGE CLINTON GEORGE CLINTON ROWE GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN GEORGE MOSES HORTON God's hand hear heard heart heaven HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY hits time fur JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL JAMES MADISON BELL JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD JOHN WILLIS MENARD JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON land liberty light live Lord mighty nation ne'er Negro night Notes o'er PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR peace poems poetry poets praise prayer race rise sing slave slavery slavery's smile song soul sweet tell thee thou thought TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Twas unto verse voice WEBSTER DAVIS