To make a poet black;

Redding, J. Saunders with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

ISBN 10: 0801419824 / ISBN 13: 9780801419829

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1988

About this Item

xxxiii, 142p., very good hardcover. Reprint of Saunders' first (1939) book.

Seller Inventory # 8635

Bibliographic Details

• Title: To make a poet black
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801419824
• ISBN 13: 9780801419829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary criticism
  • Poetry
  • African American

About this title

Synopsis

This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it ranges widely, beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon, the first American Black writer, and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.