Complete poems
By: Claude McKay ; edited and with an introduction by William J. Maxwell.
Contributors: Maxwell, William J.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Jamaican Americans -- Poetry.; Blacks -- Poetry.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Poetry.; Jamaica -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Claude McKay : lyric poetry in the age of cataclysm / William J. Maxwell; title: Jamaican periodical poetry, 1911-12; title: Songs of Jamaica (1912); title: Constab ballads (1912); title: Early English and American poetry, 1916-22; title: Harlem shadows (1922); title: The Clinic, circa 1923; title: The years between, 1925-34; title: Cities, circa 1934; title: The cycle, circa 1943; title: Final Catholic poetry, 1945-47.