Negro poets and their poems / by Robert T. Kerlin...
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Washington, D.C. :
Associated Publishers,
[1923]
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Table of Contents:
- I: THE PRESENT-DAY NEGRO HERITAGE OF SONG. Untaught melodies
- folk song : The spirituals ; the seculars
- The earlier poetry of art : Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley ; Charles L. Reason ; George Moss Horton ; Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper ; James Madison Bell and Albery A. Whitman
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- J. Mord Allen
- II: THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO. A glance at the field
- Some representatives of the present era : The Cotters, father and son ; James David Corrothers ; A group f singing Johnsons
- James Weldon Johnson, Charles Bertram Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Adolphus Johnson ; William Stanley Braithwaite ; George Reginald Margetson ; William Moore ; Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. ; Walter Everette Hawkins ; Claude McKay ; Leslie Pinckney Hill
- III: THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD. Miss Eva A. Jessye
- Mrs. J. W. Hammond
- Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Miss Angelina W. Grimke
- Mrs. Anne Spencer
- Miss Jessie Fauset
- IV: AD ASTRA PER ASPERA. Per aspera : Edward Smyth Jones ; Raymond Garfield Dandridge ; George Marion McClellan ; Charles P. Wilson ; Leon R. Harris ; Irvin W. Underhill
- Ad astra : James C. Hughes ; Leland Milton Fisher ; W. Clarence Jordan ; Roscoe C. Jamison
- V: NEW FORMS OF POETRY. Free verse : Will Sexton ; Andrea Razafkeriefo ; Langston Hughes
- Prose poems : W. E. Burghardt DuBois ; Kelly Miller ; Charles H. Conner ; William Edgar Bailey ; R. Nathaniel Dett
- VI: DIALECT VERSE. Waverly Turner Carmichael
- Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
- Raymond Garfield Dandridge
- Sterling M. Means
- J. Mord Allen
- James Weldon Johnson
- Theodore Henry Schackleford
- VIII: MISCELLANEOUS. Eulogistic poems
- Commemorative and occasional poems
- INDEX OF AUTHORS WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.