Negro Poets and Their Poems

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
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Preface			xiii
The Present-Day Negro Heritage of Song			1
I.	Untaught Melodies: Folk Song		4
	1.	The Spirituals	6
	2.	The Seculars	12
II.	The Earlier Poetry of Art		20
	1.	Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley	20
	2.	Charles L. Reason	24
	3.	George Moses Horton	25
	4.	Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper	26
	5.	James Madison Bell and Albery A. Whitman	32
	6.	Paul Laurence Dunbar	37
	7.	J. Mord Allen	48
CHAPTER II
The Present Renaissance of the Negro			51
I.	A Glance at the Field		51
II.	Some Representatives of the Present Era		70
	1.	The Cotters, Father and Son	70
	2.	James David Corrothers	85
	3.	A Group of Singing Johnsons:
		James Weldon Johnson	90
		Charles Bertram Johnson	95
		Fenton Johnson	99
		Adolphus Johnson	104
	4.	William Stanley Braithwaite	105
	5.	George Reginald Margetson	109
	6.	William Moore	111
	7.	Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.	113
	8.	Walter Everette Hawkins	119
	9.	Claude McKay	126
	10.	Leslie Pinckney Hill	131
CHAPTER III
The Heart of Negro Womanhood			139
	1.	Miss Eva A. Jessye	139
	2.	Mrs. J. W. Hammond	Clyx.com