The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
- ISBN-10
- 0773468102
- ISBN-13
- 9780773468108
- Pages
- 433
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- E. Mellen Press
- Author
- Jean Toomer
Description
This Volume brings together everything published by Jean Toomer, known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance Foreword; Well, it finally happened: in the year 2002, some thirty-five years following Jean Toomer's death in 1967, someone finally got around to compiling his uncollected works and publishing them in one magnificient volume. What a boon this will prove for Jean Toomer scholars! For now, instead of having to stumble blindly through the dark stacks of musty libraries throughout this great nation in search of those delightful little magazines of the '20s and '30, where Jean Toomer first published his poems and short stories, our scholars may now find them all under one well lighted roof. Our scholar has only to go to his local libray, check out The Uncollected Works of Jean Toomer, and bingo!, there's everything Toomer ever published right at his fingertips. It is interesting to note how John Griffin arranged Toomer's works in this volume. Instead of grouping them according to genre (poems, vignettes, short stories and essays), Griffin arranged them chronologically. Thus the reader can trace, from decade to decade, Toomer's evolution as a writer--not a boring pastime by any
