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The poetry of the era was published in several different ways, notably in the form of anthologies. The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923), An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes (1924), and Caroling Dusk (1927) have been cited as four major poetry anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance. [2]
W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944, published March 9; English poet living in the United States at this time [10] George Barker, The True Confession of George Barker [11] Basil Bunting, Poems: 1950 [10] Norman Cameron, Forgive Me, Sire, and Other Poems [10] Walter de la Mare, Inward Companion, published in October [10]
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) remains a prominent playwright and author within American literary history. Her play Raisin in the Sun is about an African American family aspiring to move beyond the segregation and disenfranchisement in 1950s Chicago. This work made her the first Black woman to have a play performed on ...
The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous metaphors, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of "the familiar" in English poetry, by describing ordinary things as if through the eyes of a Martian.
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
The rule was phased out in the 1950s, but it wasn’t until 1970 that a Black woman actually won a state title in order to compete in the pageant and another decade until a Black woman was crowned ...
The first legal victory against U.S. segregation was in San Diego County in 1930, when Mexican American parents successfully sued the Lemon Grove district to integrate. But years passed before the ...
Tina Darragh (born 1950) Robert Dassanowsky (born 1960) Guy Davenport (1927–2005) Chad Davidson (born 1970) Donald Davidson (1893–1968) Gustav Davidson (1895–1971) Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825) Michael Davidson (born 1944) Alan Davies (born 1951) Dale Davis; Gwen Davis (born 1936) Jon Davis (born 1952) Clarence Day (1874–1935 ...