Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (1922) - Couverture rigide

McKay, Claude

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498146864 ISBN 13 : 9781498146869

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

These poems have a special interest for all the races of man because they are sung by a pure blooded Negro. They are the first significant expression of that race in poetry. We tried faithfully to give a position in our literature to Paul Laurence Dunbar. We have excessively welcomed other black poets of minor talent, seeking in their music some distinctive quality other than the fact that they wrote it. But here for the first time we find our literature vividly enriched by a voice from this most alien race among us. And it should be illuminating to observe that while these poems are characteristic of that race as we most admire it they are gentle-simple, candid, brave and friendly, quick of laughter and of tears yet they are still more characteristic of what is deep and universal in mankind. There is no special or exotic kind of merit in them, no quality that demands a transmutation of our own natures to perceive.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1498146864
• ISBN 13: 9781498146869
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 118
• Illustrateur: Eastman Max