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Joan R. Sherman
Gathers poems by thirty-five Black, nineteenth-century poets, and, using a chronological arrangement, traces changes in theme from pre- to post-Civil War times.
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Enslaved from birth until the end of the Civil War, the self-taught George Moses Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first…
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These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs…
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Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753-1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction…
Richard Jefferies
A sudden catastrophe descends upon England, and the survivors revert to a feudal society. Hauntingly beautiful in its descriptions of environmental collapse, this 1906 novel offers an early example of…
Joan R Sherman
Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century brings into view over 130 other Black men and women who published poetry in America during the century between Phillis Wheatley and Paul…
