Famous American Negro Poets
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Title
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Famous American Negro Poets
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This edition
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"Famous American Negro Poets" . Ed. Charlemae Hill Rollins. Famous Biographies for Young People. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. 95 pp.
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Table of contents
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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- ).
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About the anthology
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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).
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Cited in
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• [not in Kinnamon 1997]
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Item Number
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A0066
