African-American poets : Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B. Tolson /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bloom, Harold
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2003]
Series:	Modern critical views.
Subjects:	American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life. African Americans in literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom
Preacherly text: African American poetry and vernacular performance / Marcellus Blount
D.H. Lawrence and black writers / Leo Hamalian
Introduction to the poems of Phillis Wheatley / Julian D. Mason, Jr
Slave's subtle war: Phillis Wheatley's use of biblical myth and symbol / Sondra O'Neale
"Let me make the songs for the people": a study of Frances Watkins Harper's poetry / Patricia Liggins Hill
Paul Dunbar and the mask of dialect / John Keeling
Paul Laurence Dunbar: master player in a fixed game / Ralph Story
Weapon of my song: the poetry of James Weldon Johnson / Richard A. Long
Claude McKay's romanticism / Geta J. LeSeur
Whitman legacy and the Harlem Renaissance / George B. Hutchinson
New Negro poet and the Nachal man: Sterling Brown's folk odyssey / John S. Wright
Jazz, realism, and the modernist lyric: the poetry of Langston Hughes / Anita Patterson
"Singing man who must be reckoned with": private desire and public responsibility in the poetry of Countě Cullen / Peter Powers
Dual reality: echoes of Blake's tiger in Cullen's heritage / Ronald E. Sheasby
Evolution of style in the poetry of Melvin B. Tolson / Mariann B. Russell
Hamlet rives us: the sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson / Gary Smith.