Title: Modern Black poets
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.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, African American authors, American poetry, Intellectual life, History and criticism, African Americans, Afro-American authors