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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]
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]
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 ...
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
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 ...
Emily Dickinson. American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). [1]
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 book depicts American history throughout the 1960s. The book's title refers to a fragile but stable social fabric that was present in the United States in the 1950s, held together by racial segregation, an expanding military industrial complex and repression of sexual rights; a social order that would be shattered in the 1960s.