CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: CLAUDE MCKAY—LYRIC POETRY IN THE AGE OF CATACLYSM

William J. Maxwell

Jamaican Periodical Poetry, 1911–12

Songs of Jamaica (1912)

Constab Ballads (1912)

Early English and American Poetry, 1916–22

Harlem Shadows (1922)

“The Clinic,” circa 1923

“The Years Between,” 1925–34

“Cities,” circa 1934

“The Cycle,” circa 1943

Final Catholic Poetry, 1945–47

NOTES TO THE POEMS

WORKS CITED IN NOTES TO THE POEMS

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

INDEX OF TITLES