Famous American Negro Poets
Item
Title
Famous American Negro Poets
This edition
"Famous American Negro Poets" . Ed. Charlemae Hill Rollins. Famous Biographies for Young People. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. 95 pp.
Table of contents
Jupiter Hammon (1720?-1806?) -- Phillis Wheatley (about 1753-1784) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) -- Effie Lee Newsome (1885- ) -- Arna Bontemps (1902- ) -- Langston Hughes (1902- ) -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- Margaret Walker (1915- ) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ).
About the anthology
More a collection of biographies, than an anthology in conception, but does include poetic selections from each author discussed:
• "Brief biographies of twelve African American poets with examples of their best-known works, from Jupiter Hammon of the eighteenth century to today's Arna Bontemps and Gwendolyn Brooks" (publisher's description; WorldCat).
• "Brief biographies of twelve African American poets with examples of their best-known works, from Jupiter Hammon of the eighteenth century to today's Arna Bontemps and Gwendolyn Brooks" (publisher's description; WorldCat).
Cited in
• [not in Kinnamon 1997]
Item Number
A0066