Owen Dodson

Owen Vincent Dodson (November 28, 1914 - June 21, 1983) bụ onye America na-ede uri, onye edemede na onye ode akwụkwọ. Ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị na-agụ uri Africa-American nke oge ya, jikọtara ya na ọgbọ ndị na-ede uri ojii na-esote Harlem Renaissance .  Ọ nwetara mkpakọrịta sitere na Rosenwald Foundation maka usoro egwuregwu otu ihe. 

 Akụkọ ndụ 
Amụrụ na Brooklyn, New York, US, Dodson gara ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị Thomas Jefferson (Brooklyn) June 1932. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Bates College (BA 1936) na Yale School of Drama (MFA 1939).  Ọ kuziri na Mahadum Howard, ebe ọ bụ onye isi oche nke Ngalaba Drama, site na 1940 ruo 1970, yana obere oge na Spelman College na Mahadum Atlanta . Hatch, James V. Sorrow is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson. (Illinois, 1993). James V. Hatch akọwawo na Dodson "bụ ngwaahịa nke abụọ yiri ike-ahụmahụ Black na America na ya ndiife na obodo ụzọ ụzọ, na oge gboo humanistic mmụta." Hatch, "The Alchemy of Owen Dodson", Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 1980), 51.

Abụ nke Dodson dịgasị iche iche ma kpuchie ọtụtụ isiokwu, ụdị na ụdị. O ji olumba ojii dee mgbe ụfọdụ, ọ bụ ezie na ọ na-esikeke, na ndị ọzọ hotara ma zoo aka na uri na ihe nkiri oge ochie . O dere banyere okpukpe nakwa banyere mmekọahụ —ọ bụ nwoke nwere mmasị nwoke, ọ bụ ezie na ya na Priscilla Heath, bụ́ nwa akwụkwọ Bates, ya na ya na-emekọ ihe ọnụ, ná nkenke. Hatch, James V. Sorrow is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson. (Illinois, 1993). Otu onye nkatọ na-akọwa ya dị ka "nwoke mara mma, nwoke nwere mmasị nwoke bụ onye chọpụtara mmasị mmekọahụ ya n'oge ndụ ya, mana onye na-enweghị isi na enweghị obi ụtọ na ọtụtụ mmekọrịta ọjọọ." 

Ya na ndị na-ede uri bụ WH Auden na William Stanley Braithwaite nwere njikọ chiri anya, mana mmetụta ya siri ike ịkọwapụta. N'ajụjụ ọnụ ya na Charles H. Rowell, o kwuru:

 Ọfọn, onye edemede ọ bụla, na mmalite nke ọrụ ya, onye ọ bụla na-emetụta ya. N'ezie ọ bụ eziokwu na egwu ragtime nke Langston Hughes na usoro nke Countee Cullen, nraranye ya nye ụka, emetụtala m. Mana ị maara ma ọ bụrụ na ị na-ege Bach ntị wee gee ntị n'oge Haydn ị nwere ike ịhụ obe n'etiti abụọ - ị nwere ike ịhụ na Haydn nwere mmetụta Bach. Mgbe ahụ, ọ bụrụ na ị na-ege Haydn ntị na ntozu ya wee gee Beethoven ntị, mgbe ahụ ị nwere ike ịhụ na Beethoven nwere mmetụta na mmalite nke ọrụ ya. Ma ọ bụrụ na ị na-ege ntị na kasị ukwuu Beethoven na mgbe ahụ ị na-ege ntị n'oge Brahms, ị pụrụ ịhụ na n'oge Brahms e mesịrị mmetụta Beethoven. Mgbe ahụ ọ ghọrọ ụdị nke ya. O nwetara echiche nke ya banyere ndụ. Ị na-enwe mmasị n'ebe nna gị nọ, ị na-eṅomikwa omume ya na nguzo ya - otú o si ekwu okwu, otú o si jide iko ya, otú o si susuo nwunye ya ọnụ. O nwere ihe na-emetụta gị. Ma ka ị na-etolite, ị ga-amalite nweta ụdị nke gị, klas nke gị, echiche nke gị maka ihe na-eme. Oh, ee, ọ bụ eziokwu na Langston Hughes na Countee Cullen metụtara m. Rowell, Charles H. "An Interview with Owen Dodson", Callaloo 20,3 (1997).

 Ntụaka 

 Ọgụgụ ọzọ 

 Onye nkwukọrịta Oxford na akwụkwọ ndị America America: Owen Dodson
 Joe Weixlmann, "Ọgba ọsọ nke nnukwu ubube ogologo dị ike: Akwụkwọ edemede Owen Dodson", Nzukọ Literature Black American 14 (Oge okpomọkụ 1980): 60–68.

 Njikọ mpụga 

 Ụtụ nke Howard University English Department.
 Nchịkọta Owen Dodson . Yale mkpokọta akwụkwọ ndị America. Akwụkwọ Beinecke Rare na ọba akwụkwọ aka.