Selected Poems (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

 
9780486299808: Selected Poems (Thrift Editions)

Synopsis

This comprehensive collection features the finest works of one of the most-admired and widely-read African-American poets. Both dialect and standard-English poems appear here, including "Ode to Ethiopia," "Worn Out," "Not They Who Soar," "When Malindy Sings," "We Wear the Mask, "Dinah Kneading Dough," "The Haunted Oak," "Black Samson of Brandywine," and many more.

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Review

"The first American Negro poet of real literary distinction"

About the Author

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African-American poets to gain national recognition. The son of freed slaves from Kentucky, he was uanble to afford college and became an elevator operator. He later moved to Chicago, where he befriended Frederick Douglass and published poetry in prominent national publications and writing lyrics for a number of musical reviews.

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