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What are McKay’s greatest poems? Below, we select and introduce ten of his best, and best-known, compositions. 1. ‘ Harlem Shadows ’. Ah, stern harsh world, that in the wretched way. Of poverty, dishonor and disgrace, Has pushed the timid little feet of clay, The sacred brown feet of my fallen race! Ah, heart of me, the weary, weary feet.
He is the author of The Passion of Claude McKay: Selected Poetry and Prose (1973), The Dialectic Poetry of Claude McKay (1972), Selected Poems (1953), Harlem Shadows (1922), Constab Ballads (1912), and Songs of Jamaica (1912), among many other books of poetry and prose.The son of peasant farmers, McKay was infused with pride in his African ...
11 de jul. de 2012 · The present volume, meticulously edited and with an introduction by scholar Joan R. Sherman, includes a representative selection of this dialect verse, as well as uncollected poems, and a...
He was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo (1929), and Banana Bottom (1933).
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Books. Selected Poems of Claude McKay. Claude McKay. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1953 - Poetry - 110 pages. "In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay...
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Selected Poems of Claude McKay is the final collection of his poems authored by Claude McKay; it was published by Bookman & Associates in 1953 with an introduction by John Dewey. Subsequently, the Selected Poems was widely reprinted by Harvest/HBJ -- with the Dewey introduction replaced by a biographical note by Max Eastman.
