Famous American Negro poets / [electronic resource] by Charlemae Rollins.
Material type: TextSeries: Famous biographies for young peoplePublication details: New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1965.Description: 95 p. : ports. ; 22 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Famous American Negro poets.DDC classification:- [920] 19
- PS153.N5 R65 1965
- J920
- HR 1631
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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