The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 /

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 / an anthology edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps.

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Other Authors: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 (Editor), Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970.
Edition:[Revised and updated edition].
Series:Doubleday/Anchor AO-73
Subjects:
American poetry > African American authors.
African Americans > Poetry.
Poetry > Black authors.
Black people > Poetry.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • I NEGRO POETS OF THE U.S.A. Bars Fight / Lucy Terry
  • An Evening Thought / Jupiter Hammon
  • His Excellency General Washington ; On Imagination / Phillis Wheatley
  • On Liberty and Slavery / George Moses Horton
  • Epigram / Armand Lanusse
  • The Slave Auction ; Let the Light Enter / Frances E.W. Harper
  • Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle / Pierre Dalcour
  • The Feet of Judas / George Marion McClellan
  • The Way-side Well / Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
  • Miss Melerlee / John Wesley Holloway
  • A Litany at Atlanta / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar ; An Indignation Dinner / James David Corrothers
  • O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Lift Every Voice and Sing / James Weldon Johnson
  • Sympathy ; Dawn ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; Little Brown Baby ; A Death Song ; Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Sonnet / Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • The House of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers ; White Magic: An Ode / William Stanley Braithwaite
  • The Teacher ; Tuskegee / Leslie Pinckney Hill
  • A Winter Twilight ; For the Candle Light ; When the Green Lies over the Earth ; Tenebris / Angelina Weld Grimké
  • My Hero / Benjamin Brawley
  • Life Long, Poor Browning ... ; Letter to My Sister ; At the Carnival ; Lines to a Nasturtium ; For Jim, Easter Eve / Anne Spencer
  • Enigma ; La Vie C'est la Vie ; Dead Fires ; Oblivion / Jessie Redmond Fauset
  • Morning Light ; Arctic Tern in a Museum ; Little Birches / Effie Lee Newsome
  • The Heart of a Woman ; Youth ; Remember ; The Suppliant ; Old Black Men ; Interracial ; I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night ; Recessional ; My Little Dreams / Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • San Francisco ; Villanelle of Washington Square ; View Carré / Walter Adolphe Roberts
  • Rulers : The Banjo Player ; The Scarlet Woman ; Tired ; Aunt Jane Allen ; When I Die ; The Lonley Mother ; Who Is That A-walking in the Corn? / Fenton Johnson
  • Status Quo ; At Early Morn / Binga Dismond
  • The Tropics in New York ; After the Winter ; Spring in New Hampshire ; A Song of the Moon ; Harlem Shadows ; America ; White Houses ; If We Must Die ; Baptism ; Flame-heart / Claude McKay
  • Banking Coal ; The Blue Meridian / Jean Toomer
  • Supplication ; And What Shall You Say? / Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
  • Dark Symphony ; Lamda ; Do / Melvin B. Tolson
  • On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church ; Kid Stuff ; Toast ; Letters Found Near a Suicide / Frank Horne
  • The Craftsman ; McDonogh Day in New Orleans / Marcus B. Christian
  • Nocturne Varial ; Dream Song ; Tranformation / Lewis Alexander
  • The Elevator Man Adheres to Form ; Best Loved of Africa ; Dance of the Abakweta / Margaret Danner
  • After Winter ; Old Lem ; Foreclosure ; Remembering Nat Turner ; Sister Lou / Sterling A. Brown
  • The Mask ; Solace ; Joy ; Interim / Clarissa Scott Delany.
  • I, Too, Sing America ; Dream Variation ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to Son ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Personal ; Havana Deams ; Harlem Sweeties ; Merry-Go-Round ; Let America Be America Again ; I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted ; Song for a Suicide ; Harlem ; Birmingham Sunday ; Motto ; Cultural Exchange / Langston Hughes
  • Sonnets ; Lines Written At the Grave of Aleandre Dumas / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
  • A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Miracles ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern Mansion ; Length of Moon ; The Return ; Idolatry ; Close Your Eyes! ; Golgotha Is a Mountain ; A Note of Humility ; The Daybreakers ; Nocturne of the wharves ; God Give to Men / Arna Bontemps
  • Epitaph for a Bigot ; Green Valley / Dorothy Vena Johnson
  • For a Poet ; The Wise ; For a Lady I Know ; Incident ; Yet Do I Marvel ; Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds ; From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen
  • The Resurrection ; My Angel ; And One Shall Live in Two ; Muse in Late November ; She Said ... / Jonathan Henderson Brooks
  • Poet ; Prescience ; Haven ; Appoggiatura ; Benedicion / Donald Jeffery Hayes
  • Four Glimpses of Night ; I Sing No New Songs ; Robert Whitmore ; Flowers of Darkness / Frank Marshall Davis
  • Northboun̕ / Lucy Ariel Williams Holloway
  • Forgotten Dreams ; On the Death of a Child / Edward Silvera
  • Summer Matures ; Fulfillment ; Magalu ; Remember Not ; Invocation ; The Road / Helene Johnson
  • Face of Poverty / Lucy Smith
  • Urgency / Sarah E. Wright
  • Adjuration ; Tumult / Charles Enoch Wheeler
  • Plans ; A Young David; Birmingham ; Words / Helen Morgan Brooks
  • Without Name / Pauli Murray
  • Heart of the Woods / Wesley Curtright
  • Freedom in Mah Soul ; Western Town / David Wadsworth Cannon, Jr.
  • A Boy's Need ; Crossing a Creek ; Willow Bend and Weep ; On Calvary's Lonely Hill / Herbert Clark Johnson
  • The Letter / Beatrice M. Murphy
  • O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; A Ballad of Remembrance ; Runagate Runagate ; Frederick Douglass / Robert E. Hayden
  • Creole Girl / Leslie Morgan Collins
  • Six O'Clock ; Rag Doll and Summer Birds ; Counterpoint ; Epitaph for a Negro Woman ; The Decision ; Poem for My Brother Kenneth / Owen Dodson
  • Memorial Wreath ; Legacy: My South / Dudley Randall
  • Where Have You Gone? ... ; If There Be Sorrow / Mari Evans.
  • Molly Means ; We Have Been Believers ; For My People ; October Journey ; Harriet Tubman ; For Mary McLeod Bethune / Margaret Walker
  • This Hour / Oliver LaGrone
  • Be Daedalus / Nanina Alba
  • Ultimate Equality ; Basic / Ray Durem
  • The Fishes and the Poet's Hands / Frank Yerby
  • Kitchenette Building ; The Birth in a Narrow Room ; "pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps" ; First Fight. Then Fiddle ; The Wall / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Here and Now / Catharine Cater
  • Prayer ; Another Day / Isabella Maria Brown
  • To Satch ; What Bright Pushbutton? / Samuel Allen
  • To an Avenue Sport / Helen Johnson Collins
  • Blues for Bessie ; Two Leaqn Cats ... ; Young Poet ; Sunset Horn / Myron O'Higgins
  • Journey to a Parallel ; The African Affair / Bruce McM. Wright
  • Portrait Phillippines ; Sonnet / Alfred A. Duckett
  • Time and Tide / Hazel Washington LaMarre
  • Song ; Notes for a Movie Script ; Letter Across Doubt and Distance ; And on This Shore
  • Picnic: The Liberated / M. Carl Holman
  • Paternal ; Mae's Rent Party / Ernest J. Wilson, Jr.
  • A Folding and Unfolding / Welton Smith
  • Church Burning: Mississippi ; Black Muslim Boy in a Hospital ; Son James A. Emanuel
  • To a Brown Girl / Ossie Davis
  • Refugee ; Midway ; Mortality / Naomi Long Madgett
  • A Private Letter to Brazil ; The Map / G.C. Oden
  • Clubwoman ; Jungle / Mary Carter Smith
  • In Spite of All This Much Needed Thunder / Zack Gilbert
  • Christophe / Russell Atkins
  • For William Edward Burghardt DuBois on his Eightieth Birthday / Bette Darcie Latimer
  • Black Man's Feast / Sarah Webster Fabio
  • Jazz / Frank London Brown
  • Miles' Delight / Ted Joans
  • I've Got a Home in that Rock / Raymond Patterson
  • Three Kings / James P. Vaughn
  • To Vanity / Darwin T. Turner
  • Dream / Solomon Edwards
  • Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton
  • Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-way Ticket to France / Conrad Kent Rivers
  • Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Epistrophe / LeRoi Jones
  • Suburbia / Maurice Martinez
  • Afterwards, They Shall Dance ; Cincophrenicpoet ; Benediction / Bob Kaufman
  • Letter from a Wife / S. Carolyn Reese
  • A Juju of My Own / Lebert Bethune
  • The Feral Pioneers-for Dancer / Ishmael Reed
  • Poems; Birmingham 1962-1964 ; Moths ; Birmingham ; Alabama / Julia Fields
  • Cities and Seas ; Ending / Norman Jordan
  • Floodtide ; Askia Muhammad Touré
  • othello jones dresses for dinner ; 18,000 feet ; eclipse / Ed Roberson
  • Just Making it (Blood for Sale) ; The Worker / Richard Thomas
  • Look at That Gal / Julian Bond
  • Gift / Carol Freeman
  • Brainwashing Dramatized / Don Johnson
  • Sketches of Harlem ; Downtown-Boy Uptown / David Henderson
  • Memorandum / Rudy Bee Graham.
  • II. TRIBUTARY POEMS BY NON-NEGROES
  • The Little Black Boy / William Blake
  • To Toussaint L'Ouverture / William Wordsworth
  • The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • The Slave's Dream / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Farewell / John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Stanzas on Freedom / James Russell Lowell
  • "Formerly a Slave" / Herman Melville
  • The Runaway Slave ; The Wounded Person ; The Drayman ; Ethiopia Saluting the Colors / Walt Whitman
  • Toussaint L'Ouverture / Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • The Bird and the Tree / Ridgely Torrence
  • Mammy Hums ; Jazz Fantasia / Carl Sandburg
  • The Congo / Vachel Lindsay
  • Defeat / Witter Bynner
  • Echoes of Childhood ; Uncle Jim ; Delphy / Alice Corbin
  • How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry / Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Porgy, Maria, and Bess / DuBose Heyward
  • The Stong Swimmer / William Rose Benét
  • Elegy on a Nordic White Protestant / John Gould Fletcher
  • Arthur Mitchell / Marianne Moore
  • Upstairs Downstairs / Hervey Allen
  • Negroes ; Lynched Negro ; Poem to Negro and Whites / Maxwell Bodenheim
  • Small Colored Boy in the Subway / Babette Deutsch
  • Little White Schoolhouse Blues / Florence Becker Lennon
  • The World Looks On / Louis Newman
  • Creed / Walter Lowenfels
  • John Brown's Prayer / Stephen Vincent Benét
  • Sonnets at Christmas (II) / Allen Tate
  • Last Impression of New York ; In War ; Big Man ; Pico Della Mirandola ; Things of the Spirit ; Pen Hy Cane / Mason Jordon Mason
  • A Communication to Nancy Cunard / Kay Boyle
  • They Are Ours / A.B. Magil
  • Boogie-Woogie Ballads / St. Clair McKelway
  • Street Scene
  • 1946 / Kenneth Porter
  • Slave Story / Hodding Carter
  • Norris Dam ; Daphne ; On a Picture by Pippin, Called "The Den" ; Harpers Ferry / Selden Rodman
  • Singing in the Dark / Irma Wassall
  • My South / Don West
  • Negro Spiritual / Perient Trott
  • Songs for a Colored Singer / Elizabeth Bishop
  • Government Injunction / Josephine Miles
  • Nice Day for a Lynching / Kenneth Patchen
  • Lenox Avenue ; The Castle / Sidney Alexander
  • The Trial / Muriel Rukeyser
  • Recapitulations XI ; The Southerner / Karl Shapiro
  • Say Good-bye to Big Daddy / Randall Jarrell
  • To a Negro Boy Graduating ; Countee Cullen / Eugene T. Maleska
  • Bim Bam / Dorothy Rosenberg
  • Juncture / Rea Lubar Duncan
  • Recessional for the Class of 1959 of a School for Delinquent Negro Girls / Joseph R. Cowen
  • Buckdancer's Choice / James Dickey
  • Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets / Frank O'Hara
  • Requiem for "Bird" Parker / Gregory Corso
  • The Memory of Boxer Benny (Kid) Paret / Frank Lima BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Author Biographies AUTHOR INDEX FIRST LINE INDEX.

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