Lift Every Voice And Sing: Selected Poems (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Softcover

Johnson, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014118387X ISBN 13: 9780141183879

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans. 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.

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About the Author:

James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University--experiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way. Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.

Synopsis:

Collects more than forty poems from a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, which celebrate the triumphs of African Americans and offer an indictment of racial injustice and prejudice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 014118387X
• ISBN 13: 9780141183879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112