Modern black poets
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Donald B. Gibson.
Contributors: Gibson, Donald B.
Series: Spectrum book; Twentieth century views
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American poetry -- Black authors -- History and criticism
Description: Twelve critical essays sketch the tradition of black poets in the U.S. from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the black rage of the 1970's. Separate critiques are devoted to the work of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Melvin B. Tolson, Robert Hayden, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 167-181.

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