Negro Poets and Their Poems
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About This Book
Robert Thomas Kerlin was a white American literary critic and proponent of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his collections The Voice of the Negro (1920), Contemporary Poetry of the Negro (1921), and Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923). This volume includes works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes. W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, Anne Spencer, and Georgia Douglas Johnson; and is illustrated by photographs of the poets and sculptures by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), an African-American woman noted for her innovative celebration of Afrocentric...
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- NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS
- CHAPTER I THE NEGROES HERITAGE OF SONG
- I. Untaught Melodies
- 1. The Spirituals
- 2. The Seculars
- II. The Poetry of Art
- 1. Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley
- 2. Charles L. Reason
- 3. George Moses Horton
- 4. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- 5. James Madison Bell and Albery A. Whitman
- 6. Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 7. J. Mord Allen
- CHAPTER II THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO
- I. A Glance at the Field
- II. Representatives of the Present Era
- I. The Cotters, Father and Son
- The Father
- The Son
- II. James David Corrothers
- III. A Group of Singing Johnsons
- 1. James Weldon Johnson
- 2. Charles Bertram Johnson
- 3. Fenton Johnson
- 4. Adolphus Johnson
- IV. William Stanley Braithwaite
- V. George Reginald Margetson
- VI. William Moore
- VII. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.
- VIII. Walter Everette Hawkins
- IX. Claude McKay
- X. Leslie Pinckney Hill
- The Philosophy of the American Negro
- CHAPTER III THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD
- I. Miss Eva A. Jessye
- II. Mrs. J. W. Hammond
- III. Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- IV. Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson
- V. Miss Angelina W. Grimké
- VI. Mrs. Anne Spencer
- VII. Miss Jessie Fauset
- CHAPTER IV AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
- I. per aspera
- I. Edward Smythe Jones
- II. Raymond Garfield Dandridge
- III. George Marion McClellan
- IV. Charles P. Wilson
- V. Leon R. Harris
- VI. Irvin W. Underhill
- II. ad astra
- I. James C. Hughes
- II. Leland Milton Fisher
- III. W. Clarence Jordan
- IV. Roscoe C. Jamison
- CHAPTER V THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY
- I. FREE-VERSE
- Songs of Contemporary Ethiopia
- II. Prose Poems
- I. W. E. Burghardt DuBois
- II. Kelly Miller
- III. Charles H. Conner
- IV. William Edgar Bailey
- V. R. Nathaniel Dett
- CHAPTER VI DIALECT VERSE
- CHAPTER VII THE POETRY OF PROTEST
- CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
- I. Eulogistic
- II. Commemorative and Occasional
- We climb the slopes of life with throbbing hearts.
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