Negro Poets and Their Poems. Robert Thomas Kerlin

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664117113

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       PREFACE

       NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS

       CHAPTER I THE NEGROES HERITAGE OF SONG

       I. Untaught Melodies

       II. The Poetry of Art

       CHAPTER II THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO

       I. The Cotters, Father and Son

       II. James David Corrothers

       III. A Group of Singing Johnsons

       CHAPTER III THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD

       CHAPTER IV AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

       I. per aspera

       II. ad astra

       CHAPTER V THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY

       I. FREE-VERSE

       II. Prose Poems

       CHAPTER VI DIALECT VERSE

       CHAPTER VII THE POETRY OF PROTEST

       CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

       INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

       INDEX OF TITLES

ILLUSTRATIONS

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