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Selected Poems - Paul Laurence Dunbar & Herbert Martin

By Paul Laurence Dunbar & Herbert Martin

Release Date: 2004-03-30

Genre: Poetry

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Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists

Paul Laurence Dunbar was ā€œthe most promising young colored manā€ 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 postā€“Civil War America that literary genius did not reside solely in artists of European descent. William Dean Howells called Dunbarā€™s dialect poems ā€œevidence 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.ā€

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.

Selected Poems - Paul Laurence Dunbar & Herbert Martin

By Paul Laurence Dunbar & Herbert Martin

Release Date: 2004-03-30

Genre: Poetry

(0 ratings)
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Dialect poems by one of the nineteenth century's most talented African American lyricists

Paul Laurence Dunbar was ā€œthe most promising young colored manā€ 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 postā€“Civil War America that literary genius did not reside solely in artists of European descent. William Dean Howells called Dunbarā€™s dialect poems ā€œevidence 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.ā€

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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