Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

by Countee Cullen

Book Overview

This selection from the work of thirty-eight poets was made by Countee Cullen in 1927. His stated purpose at the time was to bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse. Beginning with the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who, though there were black poets before him, is generally credited as the first black poet to make a deep impression on the literary world, the book includes the writings of James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806513497
• ISBN13: 9780806513492
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"