The African American Sonnet: A Literary History

by Timo Meuller and Timo Müller

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and Rita Dove all wrote sonnets.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496817834
• ISBN13: 9781496817839
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"