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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5: dialect writers (search)
ally his predecessors, in the same field. The negroes themselves, by the way, can show an orator, two prose-writers, and one poet of merited eminence. These are Frederick Douglass (1817-95); Booker T. Washington (c. 1859-1915); W. E. Burghardt DuBois, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906). Up from slavery (1900) by Washington and The souls of black Folk (1903) by DuBois are works of almost diametrically opposite styles. The former makes its appeal by its simplicity and restraint; the latter bDuBois are works of almost diametrically opposite styles. The former makes its appeal by its simplicity and restraint; the latter by its emotionalism, its note of lyric intensity. Neither author, however, is of unmixed negro blood, and neither has come as close to the heart of his race as did Dunbar, a pure negro, in his Lyrics of lowly life (1896). He was the first American negro of pure African descent to feel the negro life aesthetically and to express it lyrically. See Introduction by William Dean Howells to Lyrics of lowly life. His dialect poems, it may be added, are better than the poems that he wrote in standard
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Douglass, Frederick, 351 Douw, Gerard, 49 Dowden, Edward, 271 Do Ye Quail?, 308 Doyle, Pete, 271 Drake, B. M., 351 n. Drake, J. R., 150 Drayton, William Henry, 104, 105 Dreaming in the trenches, 291, 303 Dream-Land, 66 Dred Scott case, 89 Driving home the Cows, 286 Drum, the. See Reveille, the Drummer boy's burial, the, 286 Drummond of Hawthornden, 340 Drum Taps, 269, 270 Dryden, 5, 125, 237 Duane, Wm., 181 Dublin University, 373 DuBois, W. E. Burghardt, 351 Dubourg, Miss, 55 Dudley, Anne, 225 Dudley, Thomas, 225 Duganne, A. J. H., 280 Dukesborough tales, the, 347, 389 Dulham ladies, the, 383 Dum Vivimus Vivamus, 242 Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 351 Dunciad, the, 94 Dunlap, Frances, 246 Dunne, Finley Peter, 151 Dwight, Theodore William, 208 Dwight, Timothy, 198, 200-205, 206, 207, 208, 213 Dwight family, the, 19 Eagle and the Vulture, the, 285 Eagle of Corinth, the, 281 Edgarton, Sarah C., 174 Edgewo