African Americans - General & Miscellaneous, African American Literature - Literary Criticism, U.S. & Canadian Poetry - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism

To Make a Poet Black

Name: To Make a Poet Black
Author: Jay S. Redding
ISBN: 9780737268454

by J. Saunders Redding, Henry Louis Gates (Illustrator)

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Overview

This classic study of American black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies over the past two generations. It is here reissued with an introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A major contribution to the history of black thought in America, it ranges widely: beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.