African-american Poets: Volume 1: 1700s-1940s (bloom's Modern Critical Views (hardcover))

Description based on print version record. Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 10 Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship......Page 16 Gwendolyn Brooks: The 1940s......Page 32 Black Modernism?......Page 44 The Adventures of a Social Poet......Page 58 Inventing a "Negro Literature"......Page 80 Creative Collaboration......Page 96 "Bid the Gifted Negro Soar"......Page 112 Rewriting Dunbar......Page 142 The Harlem Renaissance......Page 156 A Familiar Strangeness......Page 174 Lyric Stars......Page 194 What a Difference a "Way" Makes......Page 208 Contributors......Page 248 Bibliography......Page 250 Acknowledgments......Page 256 Index......Page 258 Focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times to the Harlem Renaissance and the World War II era. This title covers poets that include Phillis Wheatley, author of the first volume of verse published by an African American, and the seminal figures Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Langston Hughes. - A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world - Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study - A useful chronology of the writer's life - An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.