Then And Now
Author: first_name: Paul Laurence
last_name: Dunbar
Language: English
Year: 1922

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Then And Now by Paul Laurence Dunbar.<br>
This was the Weekly Poetry project for  January 12, 2025.  <br> ------<br>
Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley. Dunbar also wrote in conventional English in other poetry and novels and is considered the first important African American sonnet wr