Negro Poets and Their Poems by Robert Thomas Kerlin

"Negro Poets and Their Poems" by Robert Thomas Kerlin is a poetry anthology published in 1923. This major collection emerged during the Harlem Renaissance, gathering works that explored the beauty and pain of Black life. Compiled by an educator and minister who intended it as a "defense of black people," the anthology features biographical information and photographs alongside carefully selected poems chosen for their quality and passion. The work became a valuable historical source documenting this transformative era in African American literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Kerlin, Robert Thomas, 1866-1950
LoC No. 24001295
Title Negro Poets and Their Poems
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Poets_and_Their_Poems
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject American poetry -- African American authors
Subject African Americans -- Poetry
Subject African Americans -- Intellectual life
Subject African American poets -- Biography
Subject American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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EBook-No. 60003
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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