Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

"The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a collection of over 400 poems by the prolific African-American writer. His work was overlooked for many years but has recently become well-known for defining the culture of his time. Discussing slavery, the Civil War, and life in a post-reform America, the book is a treasury of heart-wrenching, emotional poems that will continue to strike readers to this day.

Dunbar is the first American Negro of pure African bloodto reveal innate distinction in literature; as W.D. Howells has said, to feel the Negro life esthetically and express it lyrically.

Reproduction of the original: The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells

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