Negro Poets and Their Poems

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Negro Poets and Their Poems by Robert Thomas Kerlin.

Contents

• NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS7
• ILLUSTRATIONS12
• PREFACE14
• NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS16
• CHAPTER I THE NEGROES HERITAGE OF SONG17
• I. Untaught Melodies18
• 1. The Spirituals19
• 2. The Seculars23
• II. The Poetry of Art28
• 1. Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley29
• 2. Charles L. Reason31
• 3. George Moses Horton32
• 4. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper32
• 5. James Madison Bell and Albery A. Whitman36
• 6. Paul Laurence Dunbar39
• 7. J. Mord Allen47
• CHAPTER II THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO50
• I. A Glance at the Field50
• II. Representatives of the Present Era63
• I. The Cotters, Father and Son63
• The Father63
• The Son70
• II. James David Corrothers74
• III. A Group of Singing Johnsons77
• 1. James Weldon Johnson77
• 2. Charles Bertram Johnson81
• 3. Fenton Johnson83
• 4. Adolphus Johnson87
• IV. William Stanley Braithwaite87
• V. George Reginald Margetson90
• VI. William Moore91
• VII. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.92
• VIII. Walter Everette Hawkins97
• IX. Claude McKay102
• X. Leslie Pinckney Hill106
• The Philosophy of the American Negro110
• CHAPTER III THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD112
• I. Miss Eva A. Jessye112
• II. Mrs. J. W. Hammond114
• III. Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson116
• IV. Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson118
• V. Miss Angelina W. Grimké121
• VI. Mrs. Anne Spencer125
• VII. Miss Jessie Fauset127
• CHAPTER IV AD ASTRA PER ASPERA129
• I. per aspera129
• I. Edward Smythe Jones129
• II. Raymond Garfield Dandridge133
• III. George Marion McClellan136
• IV. Charles P. Wilson141
• V. Leon R. Harris142
• VI. Irvin W. Underhill144
• II. ad astra146
• I. James C. Hughes146
• II. Leland Milton Fisher147
• III. W. Clarence Jordan148
• IV. Roscoe C. Jamison149
• CHAPTER V THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY153
• I. FREE-VERSE153
• Songs of Contemporary Ethiopia153
• II. Prose Poems156
• I. W. E. Burghardt DuBois156
• II. Kelly Miller160
• III. Charles H. Conner162
• IV. William Edgar Bailey164
• V. R. Nathaniel Dett165
• CHAPTER VI DIALECT VERSE167
• CHAPTER VII THE POETRY OF PROTEST175
• CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS POEMS185
• I. Eulogistic185
• II. Commemorative and Occasional194
• We climb the slopes of life with throbbing hearts.203
• INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES204
• INDEX OF TITLES212
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE220

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