Negro Poets and Their Poems

Name: Negro Poets and Their Poems
Author: Kerlin, Robert Thomas

Kerlin, Robert Thomas

African American poets -- Biography; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans -- Poetry; American poetry -- African American authors; American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism

Adolphus Johnson                                                    104

William Stanley Braithwaite                                      105

George Reginald Margetson                                        109

William Moore                                                    111

Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.                                          113

Walter Everette Hawkins                                          119

Claude McKay                                                     126

Leslie Pinckney Hill                                            131

CHAPTER III

THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD                                         139

Miss Eva A. Jessye                                               139

Mrs. J. W. Hammond                                               142

Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson                                         144

Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson                                     148

Miss Angelina W. Grimké                                          152

Mrs. Anne Spencer                                                156

Miss Jessie Fauset                                               160

CHAPTER IV

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA                                                  163

I. Per Aspera                                                        163

Edward Smythe Jones                                              163

Raymond Garfield Dandridge                                       169

George Marion McClellan                                          173

Charles P. Wilson                                                179

Leon R. Harris                                                   180

Irvin W. Underhill                                               185

II. Ad Astra                                                         187

James C. Hughes                                                  187

Leland Milton Fisher                                             189

W. Clarence Jordan                                               190

Roscoe C. Jamison                                                191

CHAPTER V

THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY                                              197

I. Free Verse                                                        197

Will Sexton                                                      197

Andrea Razafkeriefo                                              197

Langston Hughes                                                  200

II. Prose Poems                                                      201

W. E. Burghardt DuBois                                           201

Kelly Miller                                                     206

Charles H. Conner                                                209

William Edgar Bailey                                             213

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Negro Poets and Their Poems

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