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Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paperback - 1993

by Joanne M. Braxton

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From the publisher

This new "most complete" edition of the collected poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the virtual father of black American poetry, includes sixty poems not included in the previous--and now out of print--Complete Poems. Sixteen of these were found in manuscript form.

Paul Laurence Dunbar's work achieved wide recognition in the first part of the twentieth century. The author of six volumes of poetry, as well as novels, librettos, songs, and essays, he was nationally known and accepted by black and white readers alike.

As Joanne M. Braxton points out in her substantive introduction to this edition, a reconsideration of Dunbar's work and influence is long overdue: "We reclaim, in Paul Laurence Dunbar, a significant American author whose career transcends race and locality even while he makes use of racialized and regional cultural materials to create an African-American aesthetic and a unique black poetic diction."

From the rear cover

This new 'most complete' edition of the collected poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the virtual father of black American poetry, includes sixty poems not included in the previous--and now out of print--Complete Poems. Sixteen of these were found in manuscript form.

Details

  • Title Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Author Joanne M. Braxton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 396
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA
  • Publication date 1993-05-29
  • ISBN 9780813914381 / 0813914388
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92037190
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.4

About the author

Joanne M. Braxton is Frances and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of American Studies and English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition.

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