major black poets - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity

Book by Tyrone Tillery; University of Massachusetts Press, 1992

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography, Authors, Jamaican--20th Century--Biography, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Mckay, Claude--1890-1948, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of Jamaica as the major factor in his decision...hopelessness experienced by black Jamaican peasants...the daemon of some poets, had got hold of...would always remain a major obstacle to McKays...as a poet. 59 Black literary conservative...emotional Negro poets." James Weldon Johnson...
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Major Black American Writers through the Harlem Renaissance

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...most significant black American writers...including his or her major writings. The critical...the lives of the poets seems to have little...Expression: A Study of Major Black Writers Westport...anthology of work by black poets. The following...
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Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House Publishers, 1995

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Madhubuti 106 Clarence Major 120 Thylias Moss...bibliographical information on the fourteen most significant black American poets and dramatists. Each chapter consists of three parts...
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1996

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...most significant black American women poets and dramatists...including his or her major writings. The critical...became the first black woman to serve...children Young Poets Primer, 1980...and articles for major magazines. A second...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1994

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, African Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...significant black American poets and dramatists...his or her major writings...today the major African-American...Coleridge-Taylor, the poets James Whitcomb...prominent black leaders...although the poets color be black, he deserves...representatives in the major departments...

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Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic

Journal article by Douglas Steward; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

Subjects:

African American gays--Literature, African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Race identity, Gay and lesbian studies--Social aspects, Saint, Assotto--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...black literature. After mentioning several poets whose work is displayed in prominent places...always been this way (27-28) Indeed, gay black literature is even more likely to be found in the "gay lesbian" section of major bookstores than in the African-American...
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Slaves in Heaven, Laborers in Hell: Chartist Poets' Ambivalent Identification with the (Black) Slave

Journal article by Kelly J. Mays; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39, 2001

Subjects:

English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political parties--19th century, Working class--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Slave" were published--and since these major policy changes had come about largely...crusade" aimed at cultivating sympathy for black slaves, 35 it is in some ways distinctly unsurprising that Chartist poets should take abolitionist sentiments for...
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"We, Too, Rise with You": Recovering Langston Hughes's African (Re)Turn 1954-1960 in an African Treasury, the Chicago Defender, and Black Orpheus

Journal article by Daniel Won-Gu Kim; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Political aspects, African American poets--Works, An African Treasury (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Black Orpheus (Periodical), Chicago Defender (Newspaper), Hughes, Langston--Criticism and interpretation, Hughes, Langston--Political aspects, Hughes, Langston--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...Hughes delivered a major colloquium speech on "Black Writers in a Troubled...truly liberating black people: The Centennial...eliminated without major surgery. (2)
major surgery" can only...carried out through a black nationalism that...
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The Material Sublime of Women Romantic Poets

Journal article by John G. Pipkin; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998

Subjects:

Romanticism--Analysis, Sublime, The--Analysis, Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...material sublime, then, women poets find a means of reinforcing...deepest shade, the keenest air, Black as my fate, or cold as my despair...the late-eighteenth-century poets of sensibility and that would...sublime" identifies as a woman poets celebration of continuity with...
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"Our Only Truly National Poets": Blackface Minstrelsy and Cultural Nationalism

Journal article by Robert C. Nowatzki; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 20, 2006

Subjects:

American poetry--Analysis, Nationalism--Analysis, Poets--Evaluation, Poets--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...apparently white) poets capable of giving...appropriation of black culture. Emerson...three of Americas major wars during the...whether white, black, or blackfaced...Are Our National Poets?" Kennard parodies...Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity...Are Our National Poets?" Knickerbocker...

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Brush Up Your History! Start Quoting It Now! Mark Cohen and John Major Describe How They Approached the Task of Producing a Ground-Breaking Volume of Historical Quotations

Magazine article by Mark Cohen, John Major; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004

Subjects:

Cohen, Mark--Authorship, Major, John--Authorship, Quotations--Evaluation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...unexpected discoveries. An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness...spread we have had so much pleasure in laying before them. John Major and M.J. Cohen are the editors of History in Quotations published...
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Poets Just Eat Their Hearts Out

Magazine article by Alberto Huerta; Commonweal, Vol. 121, July 15, 1994

Subjects:

Iverson, William--Biography, Poets--Biography, Printers (Persons)--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...California and the Pacific Coast. His last major writing and printing venture was in 1984...Epic: Dust Shall Be the Serpents Food (Black Sparrow Press). Ironically, Everson details...defined for me his vocation as a poet: "Old poets never die. They just eat their hearts out...
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Langston Hughes: 100th Birthday Celebration of the Poet Laureate of Black America

Magazine article by Charles Whitaker; Ebony, Vol. 57, April 2002

Subjects:

African American poets--Appreciation, Hughes, Langston--Appreciation, Poets--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...Harlems Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where Hughes ashes are interred...burial spot. The American Academy of Poets has taken the occasion of the Hughes centenary...far-reaching career, he produced more than 62 major works, including volumes of poetry, novels...
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The Living Langston: Poet Laureate of Black America Honored at 89th Anniversary Celebration

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 46, May 1991

Subjects:

African American poets--Appreciation, Hughes, Langston--Appreciation, Poetry

Collections: Entire Library

...known hustlers, winos, dreamers, and old Black mothers of enormous dignity and strength. He spoke of these things, and others, in 62 major works, and when he died on May 22, 1967...at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. At the celebration on the 89th...
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Bringing It Home: The Debate over the Exodus of Britain's Black Actors Has Finally Begun. Now It Is Time to Start Talking about Solutions, Writes Kwame Kwei-Armah

Magazine article by Kwame Kwei-Armath; New Statesman, Vol. 136, October 29, 2007

Subjects:

Actors--Emigration and immigration, Actresses--Emigration and immigration, Black culture--Forecasts and trends, Entertainment industry--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Entire Library

...few weeks ago where these white British poets were talking about how far things have come in this country for black actors. It must sometimes seem that you...interesting and varied careers. The last major black British star was Lenny Henry, and...

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Poets Ready to Duke It out in All Oregon Slam

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 11, 2006

Subjects:

Poetry, Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Corvallis and Bend squads, another team from Corvallis, the Black Poets Society, will also be competing. Judges randomly selected...the squads most vibrant performers. A theater and dance major at the University of Oregon, she discovered spoken word...
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LITERARY LIFE Authors Agents Publishers Bookshops E-Tailers Scouts Critics Academics Poets

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 9, 2007

Subjects:

Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...literary festival. Hannah Black, 32 CENTURY, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Black turned the publishing worldupside down last year when comic...literary salon inLondon. Last year his authors won all three major literary awardsthe Man Booker, the Whitbread and the Orange...
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Neuqua Students Use the Arts to Laud Black History Month

Newspaper article by Ann Piccininni; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 31, 2008

Subjects:

Art teachers, Black History Month

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...favorite artists, musicians, playwrights and poets." The 75-minute show, which launches the schools observance of Black History Month, takes the stage at 7:30...century currently is traveling to several major art museums, Smith said. The art of Harlem...
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Award-Winning Eugene Poets Keen Observers of Everyday Life

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 4, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...like this: the moon a small black pupil in the insomniac eye of...not that kind of exposure for poets," he said. "And the fact that...started college as a jazz studies major, poetry is an opportunity to...Book Award winners Who: Eugene poets Laton Carter and Dorianne Laux...
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Trail Is Tribute to Black History

Newspaper article by Trish Foxwell; The Washington Times, August 17, 2000

Subjects:

Maryland

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...throughout the South. Because it was a major seaport, it became a passageway where many...Church Circle, named after two very eminent black Marylanders, is the states "official repository...summer enclave where scholars, thinkers, poets, artists and intellectuals could come and...

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Paris , City, France

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...has fascinated writers, poets, and painters for centuries...is the center of many major newspapers and periodicals...1419 36), famine, and the Black Death. During the Renaissance...of cleaning the citys major buildings and monuments...suburbs in 1992. A number of major projects in the city were...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...immediately in the ranks of major American poets. A revolution in poetry...unexpectedly, after World War I, black writers came forward...American life became a major theme of novelists during...Irony and so-called black humor were the weapons...
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Ovid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...five books of short poems, conveying the poets despair in his first five years of exile...the Epistulae ex Ponto letters from the Black Sea, in four books, addressed to friends...with verve and deft characterization. A major influence in European literature, Ovid...
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Ireland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...British Parliament attempted to maintain the Irish question as a major issue in British politics. OConnell worked to repeal the union...authorities representing the union. The British sent troops, the Black and Tans, who inflamed the situation further. Partition...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...theories of the symbolist poets (see symbolists...theater; indeed, the major philosophical concern...Somebody (1967) explored black American life; writers...1984 with Ma Raineys Black Bottom and continued to define the black American experience...

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