{"product_id":"african-american-poetry-an-anthology-1773-1927-dover-thrift-editions-black-history","title":"African American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Back\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAttractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. It will be welcomed by students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhillis Wheatley Peters \n\u003cbr\u003e On Being Brought From Africa to America \n\u003cbr\u003e An Hymn to the Evening \n\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Moses Horton \n\u003cbr\u003e Liberty and Slavery \n\u003cbr\u003e Early Affection \n\u003cbr\u003e Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur \n\u003cbr\u003e Imploring to Be Resigned at Death \n\u003cbr\u003e \"George Moses Horton, Myself\" \n\u003cbr\u003eJoshua McCarter Simpson \n\u003cbr\u003e Away to Canada \n\u003cbr\u003e To the White People of America \n\u003cbr\u003eJames Monroe Whitfield \n\u003cbr\u003e How Long? \n\u003cbr\u003e The Misanthropist \n\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Ellen Watkins Harper \n\u003cbr\u003e Bury Me in a Free Land \n\u003cbr\u003e To the Union Savers of Cleveland \n\u003cbr\u003e From Moses: A Story of the Nile \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Sir, We Would See Jesus\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Learning to Read \n\u003cbr\u003e Songs for the People \n\u003cbr\u003eJames Madison Bell \n\u003cbr\u003e From A Poem Entitled the Day and the War \n\u003cbr\u003e From An Anniversary Poem Entitled the Progress of Liberty \n\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte L. Forten Grimké \n\u003cbr\u003e Wordsworth \n\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Islay Walden \n\u003cbr\u003e Wish for an Overcoat \n\u003cbr\u003eAlberry Alston Whitman \n\u003cbr\u003e \"From Not a Man, and Yet a Man\" \n\u003cbr\u003e From Twasinta's Seminoles; or Rape of Florida \n\u003cbr\u003eHenrietta Cordelia Ray \n\u003cbr\u003e Robert G. Shaw \n\u003cbr\u003e Verses to My Heart's-Sister \n\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Marion McClellan \n\u003cbr\u003e A September Night \n\u003cbr\u003e The Feet of Judas \n\u003cbr\u003e A January Dandelion \n\u003cbr\u003e\"Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Douglass \n\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League \n\u003cbr\u003e The Don't-Care Negro \n\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Delphine Henderson Heard \n\u003cbr\u003e \"They Are Coming?\" \n\u003cbr\u003eDanel Webster Davis \n\u003cbr\u003e I Can Trust \n\u003cbr\u003e Aunt Chloe's Lullaby \n\u003cbr\u003eMary Weston Fordham \n\u003cbr\u003e Atlanta Exposition Ode \n\u003cbr\u003eJames Edwin Campbell \n\u003cbr\u003e Ol' Doc' Hyar \n\u003cbr\u003e Mors et Vita \n\u003cbr\u003e De Cunjah Man \n\u003cbr\u003e Sciplinin' Sister Brown \n\u003cbr\u003eJames David Corrothers \n\u003cbr\u003e \"De Black Cat Crossed His Luck\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Paul Laurence Dunbar \n\u003cbr\u003e At the Closed Gate of Justice \n\u003cbr\u003e An Indignation Dinner \n\u003cbr\u003eJames Weldon Johnson \n\u003cbr\u003e Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing \n\u003cbr\u003e O Black and Unknown Bards \n\u003cbr\u003e The White Witch \n\u003cbr\u003ePriscilla Jane Thompson \n\u003cbr\u003e The Muse's Favor \n\u003cbr\u003ePaul Laurence Dunbar \n\u003cbr\u003e Sympathy \n\u003cbr\u003e An Ante-Bellum Sermon \n\u003cbr\u003e We Wear the Mask \n\u003cbr\u003e When Malindy Sings \n\u003cbr\u003e The Haunted Oak \n\u003cbr\u003e The Poet \n\u003cbr\u003eAnne Spencer [Annie Bethel Scales Bannister] \n\u003cbr\u003e Dunbar \n\u003cbr\u003e White Things \n\u003cbr\u003e Letter to My Sister \n\u003cbr\u003eClaude McKay \n\u003cbr\u003e The Harlem Dancer \n\u003cbr\u003e If We Must Die \n\u003cbr\u003e Flame-Heart \n\u003cbr\u003e The Tropics in New York \n\u003cbr\u003e Enslaved \n\u003cbr\u003eJean Toomer \n\u003cbr\u003e Georgia Dusk \n\u003cbr\u003e Her Lips Are Copper Wire \n\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes \n\u003cbr\u003e The Negro Speaks of Rivers \n\u003cbr\u003e Jazzonia \n\u003cbr\u003e \"I, Too\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Bound No'th Blues \n\u003cbr\u003e Mother to Son \n\u003cbr\u003eCountee Cullen \n\u003cbr\u003e Yet Do I Marvel \n\u003cbr\u003e \"To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime\" \n\u003cbr\u003e From the Dark Tower \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Back\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the \"Harlem Renaissance.\" \n\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753-1784) to the 20th-century sensibilities of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Also here are works by George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Alberry Alston Whitman, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Mary Weston Fordham, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more. \n\u003cbr\u003eAttractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. It will be welcomed by students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the nineteenth century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the twentieth century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagadistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the \"Harlem Renaissance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the \"Harlem Renaissance.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753-1784) to the 20th-century sensibilities of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Also here are works by George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Alberry Alston Whitman, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Daniel Webster Davis, Mary Weston Fordham, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more.\u003cbr\u003eAttractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. 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