Examines the life of the poet and novelist who battled racism and accepted the challenge of depicting the black experience in America.
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The Paul Laurence Dunbar Reader: A Selection of the Best of Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poetry and Prose, Including Writings Never...
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar: With the Introduction to "Lyrics of Lowly Life,"
A biography of the turn-of-the-century black poet and novelist whose works were among the first to give an honest presentation of black life.
The life and works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
This is the only biography ever published singly of the young black who struggled against the most grinding poverty, who never completed his education as he desired, and who yet became famous when just twenty-four years of age.
Majors and Minors: Poems
More than two dozen of Dunbar's poems are woven throughout this volume, illuminating the phases of his life and serving as examples of dialect, imagery, and tone.
Dunbar is the first American Negro of pure African bloodto reveal innate distinction in literature; as W.D. Howells has said, to feel the Negro life esthetically and express it lyrically.
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