Modern Black poets ; a collection of critical essays /

Modern Black poets ; a collection of critical essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, Donald B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1973]
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Gibson, D. B. Introduction
  • Redding, J. S. The new Negro poet in the twenties
  • Randall, D. The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties
  • Gibson, D. B. The good Black poet and the good gray poet: the poetry of Hughes and Whitman
  • Emanuel, J. A. Christ in Alabama: religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
  • Collier, E. W. I do not marvel, Countee Cullen
  • A poet's odyssey: Melvin B. Tolson
  • Davis, C. T. Robert Hayden's use of history
  • Jacobus, L. A. Imamu Amiri Baraka: the quest for moral order
  • Taylor, C. Baraka as poet
  • Palmer, R. R. The poetry of three revolutionists: Don L. Lee, Sonia Sanchez, and Nikki Giovanni
  • Davis, A. P. The new poetry of Black hate
  • Humanistic protest in recent black poetry
  • Bibliography (p. 167-181)