Title: Complete poems /
Authors: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948; Maxwell, William J.; Maxwell, William J.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Jamaican Americans Poetry.; Black people Poetry; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Poetry.; Jamaica Poetry
Abstract: "Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred published here for the first time, this collection showcases the range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction : Claude McKay : lyric poetry in the age of cataclysm / William J. Maxwell -- Jamaican periodical poetry, 1911-12 -- Songs of Jamaica (1912) -- Constab ballads (1912) -- Early English and American poetry, 1916-22 -- Harlem shadows (1922) -- The Clinic, circa 1923 -- The years between, 1925-34 -- Cities, circa 1934 -- The cycle, circa 1943 -- Final Catholic poetry, 1945-47.