Modern Black poets : a collection of critical essays / Edited by Donald B. Gibson.
Twelve 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.
Item details
- ISBN: 0135883849 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9780135883846 (pbk)
- Physical Description: viii, 181 p ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1973]
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Donald B. Gibson -- The new Negro poet in the twenties / J. Saunders Redding -- The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties / Dudley Randall -- The good Black poet and the good gray poet: the poetry of Hughes and Whitman / Donald B. Gibson -- Christ in Alabama: religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes / James A. Emanuel -- I do not marvel, Countee Cullen / Eugenia W. Collier -- A poet's odyssey: Melvin B. Tolson -- Robert Hayden's use of history / Charles T. Davis -- Imamu Amiri Baraka: the quest for moral order / Lee A. Jacobus -- Baraka as poet / Clyde Taylor -- The poetry of three revolutionists: Don L. Lee, Sonia Sanchez, and Nikki Giovanni / R. Roderick Palmer -- The new poetry of Black hate / Arthur P. Davis -- Humanistic protest in recent black poetry. |
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