The Book of American Negro Poetry chosen and edited by, with an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius by James Weldon Johnson
by JOHNSON, James Weldon, editor
Price: $125.00
- Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 2647
- Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
- Place: New York
- Date published: (1931)
Book Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.. (1931). Revised and enlarged edition with a new preface by Johnson. Pencil name else fine lacking the dustwrapper. Important collection with contributions by virtually every important black poet of the time including: Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois,Claude McKay, Jessie Fauset, Ray Garfield Dandridge, Countee Cullen, WaringCuney, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Edward Smyth Jones, Fenton Johnson, W.S. Braithwaite, Georgia Douglas Johnson and many more. This collection, when compared to the earlier edition exhibits some of the maturation of the generation that developed during the Harlem Renaissance. .
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