Book/Printed Material The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay on the Negro's creative genius
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Image 1 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 2 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Book ijN/„l_3lG COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 5 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... The Book of American Negro Poetry CHOSEN AND EDITED WITH AN ESSAY ON THE NLGRO 5 CREATIVE GENIU5 BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Author of Fifty Years and Other Poems NEW YORK HARCOURT,...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 6 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. SI* PRINTED IN THE U. 8. A BY THE QUINN a BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. MAR 20 1922 ©CI.A6o9211- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 7 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... CONTENTS PAGE Preface 1/ Paul Laurence Dunbar A Negro Love Song 3 Little Brown Baby 5 Ships That Pass in the Night 7 Lover s Lane 8 The Debt 10 The Haunted...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 8 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... iv Contents George Marion McClellan page Dogwood Blossoms 55 A Butterfly in Church 56 The Hills of Sewanee 57 The Feet of Judas 58 William Stanley Braithwaite Sandy Star and Willie Gee...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 9 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Contents V Ray G. Dandridge page Time to Die 109 Ittle Touzle Head no Zaika Peetruza 112 Sprin Fevah 113 De Drum Majah 114 Fenton Johnson Children of the Sun 117 The...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 10 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... vi Contents Jessie Fauset page La Vie C est la Vie i6i Christmas Eve in France 162 Dead Fires 164. Oriflamme 165 Oblivion 166 Anne Spencer Before the Feast of Shushan 167...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 11 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface There is, perhaps, a better excuse for giving an Anthol- ogy of American Negro Poetry to the public than can be offered for many of the anthologies that have recently been...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 12 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... viii Preface Is there likelihood that the American Negro will be able to do this? There is, for the good reason that he possesses the innate powers. He has the emotional en-...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 13 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface ix The influence can be seen to-day on any American stage where there is dancing. The influence which the Negro has exercised on the art of dancing in this country has...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 14 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... X Preface As for Ragtime, I go straight to the statement that it is the one artistic production by which America is known the world over. It has been all-conquering. Everywhere it...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 15 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xi improvised crude and, at times, vulgar vrords to fit the music. This was the beginning of the Ragtime song. Ragtime music got its first popular hearing at Chicago during the...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 16 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xu Preface telling an entirely different story from the original, left the chorus as it was, and published the song, at first under the name of Will Handy. It became very popular...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 17 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xiii The original Memphis Blues, so far as it can be cred- ited to a composer, must be credited to Mr. W. C. Handy, a colored musician of Memphis. As illustrations...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 18 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... XIV Preface In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime. In fact, there is not a corner of the...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 19 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xv of thirty years ago, such as In the Sweet Bye and Bye, The Ninety and Nine, etc., with the up-to-date, synco- pated tunes that are sung in Sunday Schools, Christian...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 20 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... XVI Preface by the wonder, the miracle of its production. How did the men who originated these songs manage to do it? The sentiments are easily accounted for; they are, for the...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 21 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xvli Negro expressed his irrepressible buoyancy, his keen response to the sheer joy of living; in the spirituals he voiced his sense of beauty and his deep religious feeling. Naturally, not...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 22 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xviii Preface I know de moonlight, I know de starlight; I lay dis body down. I walk in de moonlight, I walk in de starlight; I lay dis body down. I know...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 23 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xix composers who will take this music and voice through it not only the soul of their race, but the soul of America. And. does it not seem odd that this...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 24 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... XX Preface but the facts concerning Pushkin s African ancestry are not so familiar. When Peter the Great was Czar of Russia, some po- tentate presented him with a full-blooded Negro of...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 25 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxi literature and art? The white South, too, is consuming all of its intellectual energy in this lamentable conflict. Nearly all of the mental efforts of the white South run through...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 26 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxii Preface PhlUis Wheatley has never been given her rightful place in American literature. By some sort of con- spiracy she is kept out of most of the books, especially the text-books...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
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Image 27 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxiii Anne Bradstreet preceded Phillis Wheatley by a little over twenty years. She published her volume of poems, The Tenth Muse, in 1750. Let us strike a com- parison between the...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 28 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxiv Preface the other hand, General George Washington wrote her with his own hand a letter in which he thanked her for a poem which she had dedicated to him. He, later,...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 29 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxv gap between Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dun- bar. Just here it is of interest to note that a Negro wrote and published a poem before Phillis Wheatley arrived in...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 30 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxvi Preface Mrs. Harper, Bell and Whitman would stand out if only for the reason that each of them attempted sustained work. Mrs. Harper published her first volume of poems in 1854,...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 31 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxvii Not a Man, and Yet a Man, a poem of even greater length than The Rape of Florida A flash of steely lightning from his hand, Strikes down the groaning...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 32 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxviii Preface therefrom. In tke poem, On Being Brought from Africa to America, she says: Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there s...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 33 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxix distinction. Indeed, it is apparent that Phillis was far from being a democrat. She was far from being a demo- crat not only in her social ideas but also in...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 34 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... XXX Preface Columbia, too, beholds with streaming eyes Her heroes fall tis freedom s sacrifice! So wills the power who with convulsive storms Shakes impious realms, and nature s face deforms; Yet...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 35 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxxi Deprived of all created bliss, Through hardship, toil, and pain? Come, Liberty! thou cheerful sound, Roll through my ravished ears; Come, let my grief in joys be drowned, And drive...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 36 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxxii Preface injustice, but we hear a note of faith and a note also of defiance. For example, in the opening to Canto II of The Rape of Florida Greatness by nature...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 37 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxxiii It may be said that none of these poets strike a deep native strain or sound a distinctively original note, either in matter or form. That is true but the...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 38 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxxiv Preface constitute the whole or even the bulk of Dunbar s work. In addition to a large number of poems of a very high order done in literary English, he was...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 39 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... Preface xxxv so dejectedly to me he seemed to feel that he was not to live. He died when he was only thirty-three. It has a bearing on this entire subject to...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922
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Image 40 of The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay ... xxxvi Preface Mention of Dunbar brings up for consideration the fact that, although he is the most outstanding figure in literature among the Aframericans of the United States, he does not stand...- Contributor: Johnson, James Weldon
- Date: 1922