The great books have all been written, and the world does not hold a great man who is really a great writer. Literature has falled upon evil times, and now is in the hands of manikins. . . . Literature is small because the men who produce it are not great, The stream is like its fountain. The authors of the really great books have been great men. They have lived in a full sense and have understood what life means.
Literature nowadays shows a lack of convictions.
S. Burton, Manager. Last opportunity to see this great play. Sale of seats begins Monday October 19th. Dunbar was one of the most famous black writers of the late nineteenth-century. Lyrics of Lowly Life , a collection of his poems published in 1897, is available from the Humanities Text Initiative's collection of American Verse.