Fettered genius
Fettered genius: the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights Keith D. Leonard
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0813925053
DDC: 811.009896073
LCC: PS310
Edition: (acid-free paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.
Bid the gifted Negro soar: the origins of the African American bardic
tradition -- Writ on glory's scroll: Paul Laurence Dunbar's moral
heroism -- To make a poet Black: constructing an ethnic poetics in
Harlem Renaissance poetry -- Weaponed woman: the modernist heroism of
Gwendolyn Brooks's early verse -- Our souls' strict meaning: Robert
Hayden's spiritual history -- A port worth the cruise: Melvin B.
Tolson's epic imagination.
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