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NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS

CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE

NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POEMS

CHAPTER I THE NEGROES HERITAGE OF SONG

I. Untaught Melodies

1. The Spirituals 2. The Seculars

II. The Poetry of Art

1. Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley 2. Charles L. Reason 3. George Moses Horton 4. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 5. James Madison Bell and Albery A. Whitman 6. Paul Laurence Dunbar 7. J. Mord Allen

CHAPTER II THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO

I. A Glance at the Field

II. Representatives of the Present Era

I. The Cotters, Father and Son

The Father The Son

II. James David Corrothers III. A Group of Singing Johnsons

1. James Weldon Johnson 2. Charles Bertram Johnson 3. Fenton Johnson 4. Adolphus Johnson IV. William Stanley Braithwaite V. George Reginald Margetson VI. William Moore VII. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. VIII. Walter Everette Hawkins IX. Claude McKay X. Leslie Pinckney Hill The Philosophy of the American Negro

CHAPTER III THE HEART OF NEGRO WOMANHOOD

I. Miss Eva A. Jessye

II. Mrs. J. W. Hammond III. Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson IV. Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson V. Miss Angelina W. Grimké VI. Mrs. Anne Spencer VII. Miss Jessie Fauset

CHAPTER IV AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

I. per aspera

I. Edward Smythe Jones II. Raymond Garfield Dandridge III. George Marion McClellan IV. Charles P. Wilson V. Leon R. Harris VI. Irvin W. Underhill

II. ad astra

I. James C. Hughes II. Leland Milton Fisher III. W. Clarence Jordan IV. Roscoe C. Jamison

CHAPTER V THE NEW FORMS OF POETRY

I. FREE-VERSE

Songs of Contemporary Ethiopia

II. Prose Poems

I. W. E. Burghardt DuBois II. Kelly Miller III. Charles H. Conner IV. William Edgar Bailey V. R. Nathaniel Dett

CHAPTER VI DIALECT VERSE CHAPTER VII THE POETRY OF PROTEST CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

I. Eulogistic

II. Commemorative and Occasional We climb the slopes of life with throbbing hearts.

INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES INDEX OF TITLES