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Ronald Primeau
As the first full-length critical study of Edgar Lee Masters, Beyond Spoon River is important not only for its reevaluation of this American poet and his work but also for…
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Herbert Woodward Martin is a prize-winning poet and performer, an actor and playwright, a singer and opera librettist, a professor, and a scholar. Born in Alabama in 1933 and educated…
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Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry chronicles the writing and performing career of Herbert W. Martin, focusing on the way his life has informed his art…
Edgar Lee Masters
A series of poetic monologues by 244 former inhabitants (real and imagined) of Spoon River, Ill.– all are dead and from their graves speak their epitaphs.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Establishes author’s reputation as a dramatist who mastered standard English conventions and used dialect in musical comedy for ironic effects.
Presents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who…
More than seventy-five works in six genres. Featured are the previously unpublished play Herrick and two one-act plays, largely ignored for a century, that demonstrate Dunbar’s subversion of the minstrel…
