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Many people have considered the work of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes to represent two antagonistic strands of Harlem Renaissance thinking about the role of the black artist, the nature of African American literature, and indeed whether something called “Negro Literature” existed.
Countee Cullen. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised by Elizabeth Porter until her death in 1908, this poet of the Harlem Renaissance was raised by the Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Cullen of a New York City Methodist Episcopal Church. When he attended Dewitt Clinton High School, Cullen not only edited the school paper, but won a citywide poem ...
21 de mar. de 2013 · Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. : In his early twenties, Countee Cullen emerged as a central figure in the tumultuous, defiant, intensely creative cultural movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance. Here is the most comprehensive collection of Cullen’s poetry ever assembled. It begins with his astonishing first book, Color (1925)—a ...
Yet Do I Marvel. By Countee Cullen. I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why. The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus. Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare.
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Countee Cullen was probably born in Louisville, Kentucky, though Cullen himself later liked to claim New York as his birthplace. In any case, he was at some point informally adopted by the Reverend A. and Carolyn Belle Cullen; prior to that he used the name Countee Porter. The Reverend was not only a minister but also a black activist in Harlem.
Countee Cullen (New York, 30 maggio 1903 – New York, 9 gennaio 1946) è stato un poeta statunitense uno dei maggiori autori afro-americani di sempre. Adottato dal reverendo Frederick Ashbury Cullen, da cui ha ereditato il cognome, crebbe nel quartiere Harlem della Grande mela ed ebbe un'educazione cristiana metodista.
