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    612-822-4611

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Martin, Herbert

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0142437824
ISBN13: 9780142437827
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Mar 30 2004
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.86
Language: English
Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the most promising young colored man in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written while he was an elevator boy in Ohio, established Dunbar as the premier writer of dialect poetry and garnered him international recognition. More than a vernacular lyricist, Dunbar was also a master of classical poetic forms, who helped demonstrate to post-Civil War America that literary genius did not reside solely in artists of European descent. William Dean Howells called Dunbar's dialect poems evidence of the essential unity of the human race, which does not think or feel black in one and white in another, but humanly in all.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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