Lift Every Voice and Sing: Selected Poems
- ISBN-10
- 014118387X
- ISBN-13
- 9780141183879
- Series
- Lift Every Voice and Sing
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-02-01
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- James Weldon Johnson
Description
This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans. 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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