Early black American poets : selections with biographical and critical introductions / [edited by] William H. Robinson, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, William Henry, 1922- editor, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

African American poets--Biography.

African American poets.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Poetry.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 309 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1971.

Contents:

I. Orator Poets

II. Formalist Poets

III. Romantic Poets

IV. Dialect Poets.

Notes:

"This book was written for two specific reasons: to try to meet some of the growing demands of anxious teachers and students curious to know much more about early black American poets than the ordinary anthologies of Negro literature afford; and, in so doing, to display generous samplings from the little known diversity and quality of poetic writings by early black American poets of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, up to about 1915, the beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance, a period that would initiate a wholly new departure in the evolution of Negro literature. I have confined myself, wherever possible, to those poets who have produced at least a volume of verse."--General Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "Fourth Printing, 1973".

Banks Collection copy has reinforced cover and various dates stamped on preliminary pages.

OCLC:

28659199