Poetry
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Folk Aesthetics and the Spirituals in Southern Road
Sterling Brown’s scholarship in folk culture and African American history is unparalleled when considering the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Brown’s first collection of poems, Southern Road, was published in...
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Langston Hughes’ Bebop and Postwar Harlem
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You’ll hear their feet Beating out and beat out a – You think It’s a...
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‘A cat at pranks’: Christopher Smart’s Protectorate
‘A cat at pranks’: Christopher Smart’s Protectorate1 Let Shephatiah rejoice with the little Owl, which is the winged Cat. For I am possessed of a cat, surpassing in beauty, from...