Negro Poets and Their Poems

About this eBook

Author

Kerlin, Robert Thomas, 1866-1950

Credits

Produced by Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60003

Release Date

July 28, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.PREFACE — NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.CHAPTER VI DIALECT VERSE
11. 11.CHAPTER VII THE POETRY OF PROTEST
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS POEMS — I. Eulogistic — II. Commemorative and Occasional — We climb the slopes of life with throbbing hearts.
13. 13.INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
14. 14.INDEX OF TITLES

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