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Complete Poems : Edited With an Introduction By Sondra Kathryn Wilson
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Series:
- Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Penguin twentieth-century classics Complete poems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works-- Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)--along with a number of previously unpublished poems. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-101-17700-4
- OCLC:
- 1156147235
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