Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.
The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691235155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691235155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.
Folks from Dixie
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: G.N. Morang
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: G.N. Morang
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821420072
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who followed him into the American canon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821420072
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who followed him into the American canon.
Jump Back, Paul
Author: Sally Derby
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763660701
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar originated such famous lines as I know why the caged bird sings and We wear the mask that grins and lies. From his childhood in poverty and his early promise as a poet through his struggles to find acceptance as a writer and his tumultuous romance with his wife, to his immense fame and his untimely death, Dunbar's story is one of triumph and tragedy. But his legacy remains in his much-beloved poetr told in both Standard English and in dialect which continues to delight and inspire readers today. More than two dozen of Dunbar's poems are woven throughout this volume, illuminating the phases of his life and serving as examples of dialect, imagery, and tone. Narrating in a voice full of admiration and respect, Sally Derby introduces Paul Laurence Dunbar's life and poetry to readers young and old, aided by Sean Qualls's striking black-and-white illustrations. Discover the breadth and depth of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry and learn how it reflects his singular life as a late-nineteenth-century black man.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763660701
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar originated such famous lines as I know why the caged bird sings and We wear the mask that grins and lies. From his childhood in poverty and his early promise as a poet through his struggles to find acceptance as a writer and his tumultuous romance with his wife, to his immense fame and his untimely death, Dunbar's story is one of triumph and tragedy. But his legacy remains in his much-beloved poetr told in both Standard English and in dialect which continues to delight and inspire readers today. More than two dozen of Dunbar's poems are woven throughout this volume, illuminating the phases of his life and serving as examples of dialect, imagery, and tone. Narrating in a voice full of admiration and respect, Sally Derby introduces Paul Laurence Dunbar's life and poetry to readers young and old, aided by Sean Qualls's striking black-and-white illustrations. Discover the breadth and depth of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry and learn how it reflects his singular life as a late-nineteenth-century black man.
Oak and Ivy
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Strength of Gideon
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Sport of the Gods
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Crossing the Color Line
Author: Felton O'Neal Best
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description