CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I THE NEGROES HERITAGE OF SONG
CHAPTER II THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO I. A Glance at the Field
CHAPTER III THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD I. Miss Eva A. Jessye [Image unavailable.]
CHAPTER IV AD ASTRA PER ASPERA I. per aspera I. Edward Smythe Jones [Image unavailable.]
CHAPTER V THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY
CHAPTER VI DIALECT VERSE
CHAPTER VII THE POETRY OF PROTEST
CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS POEMS I. Eulogistic [Image unavailable.]
INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
INDEX OF TITLES
NEGRO POETS
AND THEIR POEMS
NEGRO POETS
AND THEIR POEMS
BY
ROBERT T. KERLIN
AUTHOR OF “THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO”
Still comes the Perfect Thing to man
As came the olden gods, in dreams.
J. Mord Allen.
ILLUSTRATED
ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, Inc.,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Copyright, 1923,
By
THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS, Inc.
To the Black and Unknown Bards who gave to the world the priceless treasure of those “canticles of love and woe,” the camp-meeting Spirituals; more particularly, to those untaught singers of the old plantations of the South, whose melodious lullabies to the babes of both races entered with genius-quickening power into the souls of Poe and Lanier, Dunbar and Cotter: to them, for whom any monument in stone or bronze were but mockery, I dedicate this monument of verse, budded by the children of their vision.
