Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index.
Contents:
Hamlet rives us: the sonnets of Melvin B. Tolson / Gary Smith. 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 CounteĢe 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.
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